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ARTICLE	s
THE MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT "Congress shall make no laws . ..." doesn't mean what we think it means.	By M. Stanton Evans	12
ROTC COMES MARCHING BACK Old-fashioned patriotism sparks an ROTC revival on campus.	By Oliver Starr Jr.	14
HOW TO BUY A GOOD USED CAR Knowledge and patience are the best weapons against shady dealers. By Paul Martin and Dennis 0 'Brien	16
DON'T LOSE SLEEP OVER INSOMNIA Simple self-help measures can help you fall asleep faster.	By Edward Edelson	18
THE PHILIPPINES: DEMOCRACY UNDER THE GUN The Philippine ship of state cannot survive without a strong, loyal military.	22
VIGNETTES OF COURAGE Gallantry over the Meuse-Argonne and heroism in the Ardennes.	By Vernon Pizer	26
THE NIGHT FREEDOM FAILED Twice denied U.S. asylum, the Soviet defector was whisked away and never seen again.	By Philip C. Clarke	28
CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION: FOUNDATION WITH A FUTURE The Legion takes steps to combat the social and physical ills that befall the young people of America.		31
HARDSHIP DUTY AT HOME Too many U.S. military families today live in substandard housing.	By Phyllis Zauner	34
THOSE MILLION-DOLLAR DUCKS Prestige and riches await winners of the duck-stamp contests.	By Gary Turbak	36
BATTLE OF THE SUBS Diesel subs are cheaper to make, but not one can shake Soviet sonar.	By Steve Salerno	38

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LETTERS 4 VETERANS UPDATE 40	VETERANS ALERT	50
COMMANDER'S MESSAGE 6 LEGION NEWS BRIEFS 43	PARTING SHOTS	80
DATELINE WASHINGTON 8 VETERANS ADVISER 48
COVER Anti-Americanism in the Philippines. Photo by JB PictureslMelvyn Calderon

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Letters

War Casualties

I just read "Women Were Casualties, Too" (November).

If you look closely at the "Three Fighting Men" statue in the mall in Washington, D.C., you will notice that the three men are looking at the same spot. It would be very nice if they were looking at the woman's statue, and if she were the same scale and looking back at them.

Whenever I saw an American woman in Vietnam, it reminded me of home and peace.

Jesse Figi Jr. Syracuse, N. Y.

Contra Support

Your outstanding October issue states the truth about the communist government of Nicaragua, and its threat to America and its neighbors. It should be required reading for every congress-

man and citizen. Please don't ever let up your vital concern about freedom in Nicaragua and Central America— the communists won't.

Peter Yurica Tilaran, Costa Rica

It has always been my impression that The American Legion was founded to assist veterans of all wars with prob- lems that might arise from their service in the defense of the United States of America. In comparison to its push for Contra aid, what isThe American Legion doing about the systematic erosion of benefits for the service-connected dis- abled veteran? Not a lot!

Richard M. Silva Edina, Minn.

We can win the Nicaraguan people over to freely chosen democracy by ending the trade embargo and helping the country with all kinds of critical

needs instead of supporting the Con- tras. But they may never vote for a democracy if we try to force a Contra- run government on them.

Charles D. Reich Shaftsbury, Vt.

Prince Of Clowns

Your "Prince of Clowns" article in November reminded me of my tour of duty at the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, Camp Roberts, Calif., in late 1944. Red Skelton did his 14 weeks of basic training in my unit, and he was the consummate entertainer. During every break in the training, Red would entertain. In addition, he regu- larly recruited his associates in Holly- wood to entertain at the post theater on weekends.

Tom Byrnes Jr. Bristol, R.I.

What a great article! I thoroughly enjoyed reading about Red Skelton. He is one of my all-time-favorite come- dians, and he never has to use four- letter words to get a laugh.

Ido L. Turri Cheektowaga, N.Y.

Communism

I can hardly compliment and con- gratulate you adequately on the article "The Lie of Communism" (November).

To me, the philosophy of Ayn Rand is not simply a castigation of communism, although it certainly is that. It is a pene- trating critique of the social, welfare- type programs of which we seem to have more each week.

J. Arthur Curtiss Lincoln, Neb.

This excellent story lays bare a re- markable resemblance to the direction in which our nation has begun to move since World War II. It should be required reading for our Senate and Congress.

Royal R. Redmond New Port Richer, Fla.

Minimum Wage

Should we raise the minimum wage (November)? I say no. These high

'Little People Need Your Help9

Current crime statis- tics warn us that about 83 percent of American children under the age of 12 will be sex victims or targets at least once in their lives, that one of every 12 women will be a vic- tim or an intended victim of rape, and that one of every 133 Americans will be murdered.

"If violence against Americans by Americans is our way of life today, it's time we changed that way of life," said John Walsh, president of the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center in Florida.

Walsh, who travels the country to stump for stronger laws protecting women and children from the ravages of crime, praised American Legion posts and departments for lobbying state legis- latures for laws to prevent the exploita- tion and sexual abuse of women and children, particularly children.

"The real battle to protect our children must be waged on the state level," Walsh said. "The quality of the lives of our children vary from state to state. Some states are good; some states are bad.

There still are 15 states that do not have laws protecting children."

Walsh said some states are beginning to register sex offenders. California, for example, has 64.000 registered sex of- fenders, which permits law-enforcement agencies to keep track of them. "The little people out there are counting on us to help them."

Many children will get the kind of help they need, thanks to The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation fund drive that kicks off this month. (See story, page 31.)

"We need $1 million to help develop and sustain programs that promote the wholesome development of children and youths, and that protect them from alco- holism, drugs, sex abuse and other such ills," said Nat'l Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer. "And we're counting on you to do what is right to help America's children."

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Oliver Hagg Salina, Kan;

Sen. Ted Kennedy labels raising the minimum wage "the single most impor- tant anti-poverty step we can take," despite the fact that Richard L. Lesher, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, notes that every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage results in a 1 percent increase in unemployment.

Daniel John Sobieski Chicago, III.

Homework Blues

Oh, wow! Secretary of Education William J. Bennett's (November) Quote of the Month: "We found out that chil- dren who do homework learn more than children who don't do homework. We spent $100,000 to learn that, so I hope you appreciate it."

I sense a bit of sarcasm (I hope) there. Doesn't Bennett realize that the "we" and the "you" in his statement are the same people? It is no wonder that Bennett has trouble understanding the problems of education in this great country, as he is part of the problem. We certainly don't need hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on such sim- ple, foolish studies as he mentioned.

George Peters Bowman, N.D.

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"If you want to know more about it, read The American Legion Magazine." That's what our sergeant major here at the U.S. Soldiers' & Air- men's Home said. We in the home have the time to thrash through and bring out issues. No wonder the magazine is read and reread. Other comments we hear are: "It was in The American Legion Magazine, wasn't it?" "Boy, oh boy! If it's in The American Legion Magazine, it must be true." Your magazine is an authority piece.

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n RECENTLY returned from my second journey to Central America in less than six months. I made the trip to assess progress toward peace in that troub- led region, and to try to understand what the future may hold for Nicaragua under the Sandinistas. My report will appear in the March issue.

But for now, as the holiday season comes to a close and we begin the im- portant work of a new year, I must share with you an impression that has lingered with me since my return.

Every nation that hopes to survive and prosper in the 21st century can pin such hopes only on its young. It is es- sential for every nation to instill its values and beliefs in its children; it is equally essential for every nation to protect its young from anything that would impede the transfer of responsi- bility from one generation to the next. To those who rule in totalitarian states, that means emphasis on the former; to us, it means equal emphasis on both.

I have seen, firsthand, how the San- dinista government in Nicaragua im- poses its values and beliefs on its young people. From textbooks that teach grade-school children arithmetic by adding and subtracting weapons of war, to the relentless flow of youths sent to Eastern Europe for a communist educa- tion, I have seen the Sandinistas' com- mitment to a future secured by Marxist indoctrination and a belief in the in- evitability of war. But I also have seen the poverty, disease and despair that characterize the day-to-day existence of most Nicaraguan children. I have come to believe that the government's com- mitment to their well-being is limited, cynical and contingent only on its own interests.

I thank God that such is not the case in our country, and I thank God for the concern and generosity the men and

Nat' I Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer

women of The American Legion and Auxiliary have demonstrated over the years. We have a long history of com- mitment to young Americans. We have been generous in our support, forward- looking in our planning and comprehen- sive in our establishment of programs. Our concerns on behalf of children and youths go beyond nurturing traditional values and instilling democratic ideals. We have taken it upon ourselves to pro- tect our young people from abuse and exploitation, to assist in the eradication of diseases that rob our children of their very lives, and to provide the educa- tional opportunities that can help them realize their potentials. We can be very

proud of what we have accomplished. But much more remains to be done.

As your National Commander, I have pledged to America's youths a commit- ment to their welfare. In accepting my responsibility in San Antonio a few months ago, I set the goal of raising $1 million for The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation. With that money in hand, the foundation can continue to fund the research and education pro- grams that are so vital to our youths.

Children do not make up 100 percent of our population, but they make up 100 percent of our future. You can help us make a better future for them by send- ing your contribution to The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation today.

You can help ensure that funds al- ways will be available for the important programs that the foundation supports. A special section in this issue (p. 31) outlines the tremendous work of the foundation and describes its ac- complishments. Although it has been in business for more than 33 years, its work is just beginning. Indeed, so long as there are children to serve, its work never can be finished.

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NATO Crisis

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, bulwark of the Western allies against Soviet military expansion in Europe for the past four decades, is likely to undergo a midlife crisis in coming months.

The raging debate over the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles, and short- and long-range missiles as well, has raised the specter of Europe being overwhelmed by superior Soviet tanks and conventional forces. Western allies are unhappy about such a possibility.

Meanwhile, some Americans want the United States to bring all or some of our 300,000 soldiers back from West Germany and other countries on the Continent. Other voices in Europe — especially in Spain, Greece and Portugal — are loudly demanding that "Yankees Go Home."

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Out of its array of secret weapons, the Pentagon has shipped dolphins to the Persian Gulf, where they are par- ticipating in Navy mine-sweeping operations.

The Pentagon has acknowledged that five of the cetacean mammals, trained for underwater surveillance and detection, were requested by Navy commanders in the gulf. Informed sources said the dolphins have been taught simply to find the mines, not to explode them.

Along with its many electronic-weapon developments, the Navy has been conducting research on dolphins, porpoises, whales and seals for the past 25 years. The findings are deep- sea secrets.

Where The Men Are

Census Bureau statistics generally are dry. but there's a hint of romantic possibilities in the agency's 1986 population estimates.

According to the bureau, women who are seeking spouses will find men to spare out West. Men outnumber women in Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota. Wyoming and Nevada. In Idaho, the sexes are evenly matched.

In all 50 states, the males of the species are in the majority up to age 18; from age 19 to 44, the females predominate in more than half of the states. At age 65 and over, the women exceed the men everywhere in the United States except Alaska.

The oldest population resides in Florida, where the median age is 36, compared with 31.7 for the nation as a whole. The youngest citizens live in Utah, where the median age is 25.5.

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Every schoolchild knows that George Washington led the American forces in the Revolutionary War. Right? No- many don't. Two-thirds of our 17-year-olds are unable to place the Civil War within the correct half-century; more can't identify the Magna Carta. Most never heard of Dante and Chaucer, or of Whitman and Melville. For all too many

students in our public schools, our historic and cultural pasts have died out. Such is the conclusion of a National Endow- ment for the Humanities study.

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Here we go again — several lawmakers on Capitol Hill are trying to persuade their colleagues to give up greenbacks for one-dollar coins. A bill that would replace the paper dollar with a metal one has been introduced in the House.

Supporters believe that the new coin will be welcomed because of the increasing demands of vending and fare machines.

The U.S. Treasury issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin in 1979, but it failed to gain popularity with the public. Among the reasons given for its demise was that the dollar coin was too often confused with a quarter and that $1 bills continued to be issued in competition with the coin dollars.

Backers note that other countries, including Canada, already successfully use dollar coins. The Canadian coin, for example, is gold-color.

Day Care For Elderly

Looking beyond catastrophic health coverage. Congress is considering developing day-care centers for the elderly as an extension of the nation's Medicare program.

Supported by more than 90 members of the House and a bloc of senators, legislation in both chambers is aimed at providing a variety of services that would keep senior citizens at home, and out of hospitals and nursing homes.

"We cannot afford to wait," said Sen. John Melcher of Montana, a sponsor of the measure.

Our aging population is already moving into the octoge- narian range, and one of every five octogenarians requires considerable help. Among all aged, it is estimated that 4.6 million already are functionally impaired and need help if they are not to be consigned to institutional care. Today, there are about 1.300 adult-day-care centers operating around the country. Thousands more are needed.

Proponents of the legislation maintain that the day-care centers would not only lower Medicare costs in the long run, but also would provide for kinder, more-effective treatment of sick and disabled older Americans.

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Rep. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J.

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At a congressional hear- ing several years ago, I asked Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger about legislation I was proposing that would institute a system of universal national service, including a military component. Weinberger replied that the volunteer Army was just fine and that any consideration of wider military service was unnecessary. When I asked whether his conclu- sion was based on a review of costs and benefits, he said that no review was available.

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I believe that one answer to this challenge is universal national service. Legislation I've prepared would require every American between the ages of 18 and 25 to give one year of service to the nation in either the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, the Coast Guard or the armed forces.

The ability of this generation to borrow and spend the national wealth may be limited, but our people represent a reservoir of talent that we haven't begun to apply.

This nation and its latest generation need to be challenged. National service builds communities and offers young people the chance to grow, contribute and belong. It's a simple concept: There are both opportunities and obligations in American life.

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Supporters of national programs said they believe that such a policy would instill a sense of patriotism in young Americans. We need not enact a program that would cost billions of dollars each year just to engender a national pride that already exists. When needed, America's youths have responded quickly, responsibly and effectively. I know that fact from personal experience. I was called to duty in World War II, and I fought with other young Americans in both North Africa and Italy.

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THE MEANING OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Our Founding Fathers' actions seem to contradict the Supreme Court's interpretation of the First Amendment that prohibits school prayer.

By M. Stanton Evans

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EPARATION of church and state under the First Amendment has become a pervasive theme of our political debates and legal controversies.

This was, for instance, a major issue in the wrangle over Daniel Manion, who temerity to support a bill in the legislature permitting the post- ing of the Ten Commandments in the schools. It was the gravamen of the Louisiana creation-evolution case settled by the Supreme Court. It is the source of loud alarm concerning the involvement of the "Christian right" in politics.

The common thread of these and countless other disputes concerning prayer in the schools, Christmas scenes in public settings, treatment of religion in textbooks, etc. , is the notion that the First Amendment to the Constitution bars any kind of official support for religious observance. Such is the meaning now routinely accorded to the amendment's opening assertion that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establish- ment of religion ..."

We owe this reading of the matter primarily to the Earl Warren Supreme Court of the early 1960s, which decided that the amendment prohibited prayer and Bible reading in the public schools, because these would allegedly consti- tute an "establishment of religion," and because the 14th Amendment adopted after the Civil War supposedly "incor- porated" this prohibition into the restric-

Reprinted with permission of Human Events.

VISIONARY — James Madison voiced concern over the amendment's clarity.

tions then applied against the states.

A generation after the prayer rulings were handed down, this construction is accepted as common wisdom.

What makes this truly remarkable is that there is not one scintilla of evidence in the constitutional record to support it. By historical standards, the founding era of our republic is not especially remote. We have a substantial documen- tary record of the era, fully accessible to the courts and commentators; we know the legal and religious practices of the time; and we have the statements and actions of the people who wrote and ratified the First Amendment.

In particular, we have the proceed- ings of the first Congress, in which James Madison supported the Bill of Rights and explained his reasons for doing so (which were, in essence, that his constituents, agitated by Patrick

Henry, were demanding it). Members debated the meaning of the language, and the legislators indicated by their contemporaneous actions what it did and didn't prohibit. This record makes it crystal clear that the current view of the matter is utterly without foundation.

Thus, to take the most startling case in point, the House of Representatives, with Madison acting as floor manager, passed what was to become the First Amendment (then designated as the Third) on Sept. 24, 1789 — accepting conference modifications of language originally proposed by Fisher Ames. The very next day, it passed a resolution calling for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving — which is the legal origin of our current holiday. The language of this resolution reads, in full:

"Resolved, that a joint committee of both houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanks- giving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a Constitution of government for their safety and happiness."

This resolution is doubly significant since it not only called for a national day of prayer, but also used language about the "signal favors of Almighty God" that, under current readings, is supposedly barred by the First Amend- ment. (Indeed, this language is virtu- ally identical to that in the non-denomi- national regents' prayer in New York State, struck down by the Supreme Court in 1962.)

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0N THE night of May 3, 1970, a fire broke out in the Air Force ROTC Quonset hut at Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis. Hundreds of students gathered to watch it burn. When fire- men arrived, the students pelted them with stones. "Let it burn! Let it burn!" shouted the students as they tried to block the fire- men's access to the blaze.

This disgraceful episode under- scored the depths to which ROTC fell on many campuses across the nation in the bleak Vietnam War days. It was so bad that hardly anyone wore his uni- form on campus. Those who enrolled in ROTC were under constant siege from the anti-war factions.

A dramatic change has taken place since that distressing era. ROTC is rid- ing high again, not only at Washington University, but also at more than 1,000 campuses across the nation. Enrollment

Oliver Stan- Jr. , a former editor for a large metropolitan daily newspaper, is a free-lance journalist from Webster Groves, Mo.

in Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC units has doubled since the 1973-74 school year. For example, enrollment in Army ROTC has climbed from 33,200 in the 1973-74 school year to 61,487 in 1985-86.

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THE pendulum has swung so far on campus that there are now as many as five applicants for every avail- able ROTC scholarship.

Also impressed with the new attitude toward ROTC is Lt. Col. Larry Bates, a twice-wounded Vietnam veteran who earned the Silver Star and Bronze Star while serving as a company commander in the 8th Infantry.

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way Battalion of St. Louis. "The fact that it is so competitive implies its pres- tige, honor and value."

ROTC is even reappearing on cam- puses where some thought it might never return. After an absence of 17 years, it came back to George Washington University in the nation's capital. With the Navy band playing "Anchors Aweigh," 73 midshipmen marched in dress uniforms for the com- missioning of the new George Washington unit as other students and faculty members applauded.

Much of this resurgence stems from good old-fashioned patriotism. Young men and women are no longer afraid to show their patriotism and have lost their fear of anti-ROTC types, many of whom were draft-dodgers during the Vietnam War.

Economic advantages also rank high among the reasons for choosing ROTC. Twenty-thousand students currently hold two-, three- and four-year ROTC scholarships, which pay virtually all college expenses, except room and board. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of grades, leadership, physical fitness and academic proficiency in such fields as engineering, advanced electronics, laser technology, computer programming, the physical sciences and nursing.

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HE prospects for buying a good used car have never been brighter, as thousands of Americans taking ad- vantage of low new-car interest rates have flooded the market with quality trade-ins.

Despite the plethora, consumers are advised to exercise the usual caution when buying used cars. The federal government has increased its efforts to punish disreputable used-car dealers, but the best protection still is a little knowledge and taking the time to check out the car before you buy it.

Before going near a lot, decide gener- ally what kind of car you need, and more important, what you don't need. Most people probably should not con- sider highly modified cars, especially those in which the engine has been swapped for one from a different make. Other cars to avoid are those with high- performance or turbine engines and older foreign luxury cars that are expen- sive to maintain. Imported "orphans" no longer sold in the United States are also poor choices, as is any foreign car if you live far from a dealer who serv- ices them.

To familiarize yourself with prices, there are a number of guides listing prices of U.S. and foreign models. The bank or lending institution where you will finance the vehicle loan also can help you check prices.

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Paul Martin, a World War II Navy pilot, and Dennis O'Brien, a public relations executive, are veteran magazine writers based in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times, said the most reli- able and up-to-date prices are in your newspaper. "A careful review of auto classified ads will give you a pretty good idea of the retail price range of specific models in your area," he said. "Classified ads also reflect regional differences in popularity and price."

When you find a car that interests you, how do you know it's not a lemon? First, disregard the odometer reading because odometers are easily set back and, although there are laws against such tampering, infractions are hard to spot.

Jim Gorzelany, senior editor of Con- sumers Digest, said a buyer should "suspect the odometer reading if the numbers, especially the first two, do not line up perfectly, or if there are gaps between the number dials." If possible, get service records from the owner. They will show how the car was main- tained and give some indication of mileage.

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Another good indication of mileage is the wear on the driver's armrest and a sagging front seat. Jedlicka said to look for a badly worn, or brand-new, foot pedal. Tires also indicate mileage. A late-model car— up to 20,000 miles- should have four tires of the same make with even wear. That also indicates good maintenance.

When deciding what dealer to visit, remember that in most big cities some new-car dealers serve affluent areas and take in a lot of used cars. These dealers wholesale the bad ones and keep the best for resale on their own lots. Usu- ally, such cars will be later models driven by people who could afford to maintain them well.

Cars found in the newspaper clas- sified ads usually can be purchased for a price between retail — what the dealer will sell a similar car for — and wholesale — what the dealer would pay for such a car. But be careful . Make sure you are buying the car from a private seller, not a floating dealer who buys and sells cars under the guise of a pri- vate seller.

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nF YOU'VE ever had a sleepless night, you're not alone. Insomnia, in one form or another, is one of the nation's most common complaints. "Ask people whether they've ever had a sleep problem, and you get a 100- percent affirmative response," said Dr. Michael Thorpy, direc- tor of the Sleep Disorders Center in New York. Ask whether the problem is serious — as the National Institutes of Health did in a survey not long ago — and you get an equally impressive answer. Seventeen percent of those questioned de- scribed their sleep problems as severe.

Now the good news: Simple self-help measures can help you fall asleep faster and get a good night's rest. And if your insom- nia falls into the serious cate- gory, a proliferating number of sleep centers can make a de- tailed diagnosis of exactly what is keeping you awake and pre- scribe precise measures to help you sleep better.

The first step is to make sure that you really have a sleep problem. Sleep-laboratory studies show that one-third of the people who complain of in- somnia get a normal amount of sleep. Many of them are older people who haven't adjusted to the shorter, lighter sleep that comes with aging.

But even with those exceptions, there truly are a lot of insomniacs, sleep experts say. Some people hit the sack and stare at the ceiling for hours, unable

Edward Edelson, a science writer for a large metropolitan newspaper, special- izes in science and medicine.

Having any trouble going to sleep at night? There is a lot more that you can do than just count sheep.

SELF-HELP— Maintaining a regular bedtime routine that includes a light snack and a relaxing book will help you avoid insomnia.

to get to sleep: others fall asleep easily but find themselves restless and wake- ful in the middle of the night. Anyone can take a few easy measures against both kinds of insomnia.

If the problem is short-term, caused by an emotional upset, a change of working hours or the like, doctors don't hesitate to prescribe a sleeping pill — generally one of the members of the

drug family called benzodiazapines, which include Valium and Librium. "For isolated episodes of insomnia that last a few days or a week, drug therapy is very effective," said Dr. Mark Mahowald, director of the Sleep Disor- ders Center at Hennepin County Medi- cal Center in Minneapolis. "But they're not indicated beyond a certain point — about three weeks — because they themselves may perpetuate the sleep problem."

Long-term use of sleeping pills can disturb the body's natu- ral sleep rhythm, Mahowald said. There's also a danger of developing withdrawal symp- toms when the pill taking stops.

If you're going to take a sleeping pill, make it one that your doctor prescribes, the ex- perts recommend. Most over- the-counter products contain antihistamines, which cause drowsiness, and don't provide much help. And tryptophan, the food ingredient that lately has been touted as being a natural sleep-inducer, gets decidedly mixed reviews.

"It doesn't hurt to try tryp- tophan in mild cases of insom- nia," said Dr. Quentin Reges- tein, director of the Harvard University Sleep Disorder Center. But Thorpy warned that the large doses of tryptophan needed to induce sleep may cause gastrointestinal discom- fort.

Sleeping pills are definitely out for chronic insomnia, which lasts three weeks or longer, Thorpy said. One of the simplest, most effective self-help measures recom- mended in such cases is a regular pat- tern of going to bed and getting up. That helps keep the body's internal clock set right, Regestein said.

"We have to be synchronized to a 24- hour rhythm," he explained. "We have to open our eyes at the same time every morning, or we're not giving our body

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Thorpy also recommended a number of "sleep-hygiene" measures, such as avoiding anything stimulating before bedtime — for instance, spicy foods and arousing activity. Exercise is good, but it should be done in the morning or afternoon. Some insomniacs are told not to watch the evening news because it gets their adrenalin flowing. A bland snack, a glass of milk and a relaxing book all help induce sleep, Thorpy said.

The list definitely doesn't include a nightcap, sleep experts agree. Alcohol will help you fall asleep faster, but it prevents you from getting the deepest, most restful kind of sleep. "If you drink a glass of wine at bedtime you could wake up at 2 a.m., unable to get back to sleep," said Regestein.

THAT goes for cigarettes and coffee, too. "We don't like to be puritani- cal, but we try to get people off caffeine, alcohol and nicotine," Reges- tein said. All three substances interfere with sleep — caffeine, for as long as 24 hours, he said.

Overweight insomniacs are advised to take off pounds if they can. Obesity puts more pressure on air passages, causing breathing difficulty at night. A shortage of oxygen — the technical term is "sleep apnea" — can interrupt sleep.

If these self-help measures don't work, the next logical stop is the doc- tor's office. Thorpy said a family physi- cian should ask about the medications that the insomniac might be taking, since many prescription drugs — those prescribed for high blood pressure, for instance — can interfere with sleep. The doctor also should ask about exist- ing medical disorders that can disturb sleep, such as chronic lung conditions and depression. Antidepressant-drug treatment often helps cure insomnia.

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President Aquino's policy of reconciliation with the communists "was doomed from the start," says counter- insurgency expert Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, who also cites serious problems in the Philippine armed forces.

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HE STAGE already had been set when the Marcos regime crumbled in February 1986. Years of widespread corruption, neglect of the soldiers' basic needs and inadequate response to a burgeoning communist insurgency had stirred up a sea of unrest in the Philippine military. Those conditions continued to fester even after Corazon Aquino took office and today threaten the island-chain republic, warned retired U.S. Army Gen. Richard G. Stilwell, former deputy undersecre- tary of defense for policy and an expert on counterinsurgency.

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DISARRAY— The attempted coup and attack on army head- quarters last August were ample warning of serious unrest within the Philippine armed forces.

land if they laid down their arms and surrendered.

The reconciliation effort was doomed from the start, as the communist objective is to dominate the Philippines. Negotia- tions got nowhere. Few guerrillas surrendered, and fewer still turned in arms. And the communists were given a breathing spell to recoup from the political mistake of not supporting the revolt against Marcos.

When the negotiations broke off in early 1987, the Philip- pine armed forces were directed to take the offensive against the communist military arm, the New People's Army. The "offensive" has not yet begun, for the government has no overall plan for dealing with the insurgency.

The military cannot go it alone. Counterinsurgency campaigns require government action to address the grievances of the rural population, police action to root out the imbedded communist apparatus, and military actions to provide security and hunt down the armed guerrillas. Without those complementary actions, the units of the New People's Army will be hard to find, and every guerrilla who is killed will be replaced by the communist political cadres.

Q- How serious a threat are the Philippine communists?

A They pose a great threat. The communist movement has ■ two major arms, political and military, pursuing a coordinated strategy. The political arm, the National Demo- cratic Front, has more than 45 supporting organizations — labor, clergy, students and so on— operating mainly in the urban areas, intent on infiltrating institutions, destabilizing the economy and eroding confidence in the government. The New People's Army, in the classic Maoist pattern of develop- ing mass support in the countryside, now controls perhaps 30 percent of the rural villages. The latest estimates place the strength of the New People's

Army at 26,000. While the Philippine armed forces number more than 200,000, only the combat units are relevant to counterinsurgency, and these total about 30,000 soldiers. It's alarming to note that the ratio of guerrillas to government soldiers is almost 1-to-l. History shows us that insurgencies fare well even when they are outnumbered 6-to- 1 .

QB Are the Philippine armed forces capable of waging all-out war against the communists?

A Under present conditions, no. They are deficient in many ■ ways. To begin with, the officer corps is fractionalized, and the quality of leadership is spotty. Soldiers have not been indoctrinated, and units have not been properly trained, for their unique missions in combating insurgency. Each soldier must be drilled on his triple responsibility: protector of the populace, contributor to its welfare and skillful guerrilla fighter. In my view, systematic and rigorous training of the armed forces for this kind of warfare should be the first priority.

Another major problem is the lack of the necessary logisti- cal support for effective, sustained operations. There are no combat rations, much equipment is unserviceable, and battalions have neither qualified personnel nor medical kits for emergency treatment of the wounded. All this adds up to low morale.

One gauge of military professionalism is enforcement of discipline and standards. In the Philippines, officers simply don't get punished for embezzlement or, worse yet, for gross leadership failures on the battlefield.

Q- What is the root of the problem between the Philip- pine government and its armed forces?

Alt's difficult to be precise, because the armed forces do ■ not speak with a single voice. But the majority of the officers complain that Aquino and her key advisers simply do not understand the dimensions and methods of the com- munist insurgency, and therefore, do not understand the

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DEFICIENT— Gen. Fidel Ramos heads a poorly trained army fraught with dissension and low morale.

scope of the measures needed to defeat it. General Ramos, the chief of staff, has publicly cited the grave danger, and called for a national strategy integrating executive, legisla- tive and judicial programs to be implemented without delay at the grassroots level. Honasan, perpetrator of the August coup attempt, tells the people the same thing.

The fact that Honasan and his small band are not being hunted by the army and constabulary demonstrates that there is wide support in the armed forces for his platform, if not for his violent methods. The recent pay raise for soldiers does not address this problem. Many people also believe that Aquino is more suspicious of the military than of the communists, as a result of the assassination of her husband some years ago.

Qa Have all these attempted coups helped the communist movement?

A Unquestionably. The communists have taken advantage ■ of every distraction and every crisis that has occurred in the Philippines. If anyone has gained anything from the current instability, the communists have. The momentum of the insurgency accelerates each time the government must face a problem that diverts its attention.

Q. Would increased U.S. aid boost the government's ability to fight the communist guerrillas?

A Yes, to some degree. But more U.S. aid is not the sole— ■ or even primary — requirement. It's a Philippine prob- lem, requiring solutions that are Philippine in design and conduct; our assistance can only reinforce domestic pro- grams. Thus, the heart of the matter is the government's willingness to make defeating the insurgency a top national priority; develop an interdepartmental game plan; and harness the entire bureaucracy to the resulting tasks under clear-cut civilian, police and military management.

This will require some budget reallocations, augmenting vital rural programs and reducing less-critical expenditures. The military budget needs only a modest increase; a high- tech army always loses to guerrillas. As I said earlier, correcting key deficiencies— extensive combat training, and providing essential equipment at battalion and lower levels — is not all that costly. One seasoned Filipino officer told me that those improvements would "make our army proud and capable, and no longer the laughingstock of our Southeast Asian neighbors."

Q. Are the Soviets supplying arms to the Philippine communist guerrillas?

A There's no evidence of that. We believe that the New ■ People's Army has received modest help from Viet- nam—mostly American-made M-16 rifles, which are the

THE GROWING RED THREAT

WHAT began in 1969 as a ragtag band of com- munist rebels has evolved into an organized, well-armed revolution that today controls about a fifth of the Philippine countryside.

The Communist Party of the Philippines and its military faction, the New People's Army, have stepped up efforts in their 18-year-long war against democracy in the Philippines, a war that has killed more than 5,000 Filipinos in the past two years. The communists are waging war on two major fronts— on the battlefield and at the polls. In some areas communists control up to 50 percent of populated areas, according to Richard D. Fisher Jr., a policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

"In these areas," Fisher wrote recently in a report, "the CPP collects taxes and maintains tight intelligence networks that allow the NPA to retain the initiative against the [Philippine] military."

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guerrillas' basic weapons. But the guerrillas get most of their M-16s by stealing government stocks or capturing them in encounters with the armed forces.

However, a considerable amount of money is being fun- neled to the Communist Party for non-military uses. Con- tributions have poured in to the various front organizations from groups in New Zealand, Australia and Western Europe— and even the United States — that are sympathetic to the insurgents' cause. The Soviet-controlled World Federation of Trade Unions provides support to the Philippines' second- largest trade-union association: the KMU, or May First Movement, which has attempted to dislocate the Philippine economy by targeting strikes on strategic industries.

QB Besides the communists and the military, what other problems are contributing to the instability of the Philip- pines?

A The overall economic situation is bleak. The Philip- ■ pines, once an economic leader in Southeast Asia, has become one of the poorest countries. Sixty percent of its people have incomes below the poverty line, and lack even minimum health and sanitation services. Unemployment is very high, and the traditionally high birth rate creates a demand for 700,000 new jobs each year.

The foreign-debt burden is staggering. While the economy had positive growth in 1986 for the first time in several years, the unstable conditions have deterred both foreign and domestic investment — the keys to long-term economic expansion. It is estimated that 95 percent of the national wealth is held by 5 percent of the population. Meaningful, phased land reform is one necessary step toward more equitable distribution of wealth.

STRATEGIC SITES— A major U.S. concern is the security of Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Station.

Q

Didn't Aquino recently decree a land-reform program designed to provide land to the landless?

A Immediately before the Philippine Congress took office ■ last July, Aquino announced a sweeping measure for nationwide redistribution of privately owned land but left the details to be hammered out by the legislature. Her action

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CAN WE HOLD OUR STRATEGIC BASES?

TWO military bases in the Philippines — the Subic Bay/Cubi Point naval complex and Clark Air Base — com- prise the southern anchor of America's strategic presence in South- east Asia. From these bases, which have operated since World War II, American armed forces have domi- nated major lines of communication across the South China Sea, connect- ing the Indian and Pacific oceans, and linking regional nations to Australia and New Zealand. Until recently, this sea expanse has been mostly Amer- ican-controlled.

America's military presence in Southeast Asia has safeguarded its own interests and supported regional nations whenever they felt imperiled. Although a few nations publicly re- fuse to acknowledge this reality and at times even criticize the U.S. pres- ence, most are quick to register unhap- piness about any reduction of U.S. strength in the Western Pacific, par-

By Robert J. Hanks

ticularly in the wake of major deploy- ments of 7th Fleet ships to the Indian Ocean.

The strategic location of Subic Bay gives U.S. warships the freedom to sail across the southwest Pacific and Indian oceans without requiring sup- ply lines that would extend to Hawaii or the West Coast, and without having to churn thousands of miles east or north for major repairs. Also, Subic 's critical location gives U.S. warships the ability to react promptly to any regional crisis.

Clark Air Base, although an opera- tional airfield, is primarily a vital supply depot serving U.S. military forces throughout Southeast Asia. Clark also is an indispensable part of a logistical lifeline to the American base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The bulk of airlifted support for that atoll originates in California, and transporting aircraft must refuel at Clark en route to Diego Garcia.

Continued access to Subic and Clark clearly is essential if the United States is to maintain a strong military presence in the Western Pacific and in the Indian Ocean. Demand for such a presence rose dramatically after Soviet air and naval forces arrived in Vietnam. These forces menace South- east Asian countries and sea lanes, and diminish the confidence that those nations have long placed in American military power.

The unprecedented Soviet buildup poses many threats. Wartime opera- tions would encompass air strikes against land targets, submarine inter- diction of shipping lanes, and sub- marine-launched cruise-missile at- tacks against opposing surface naval forces and shore targets throughout the area. The burgeoning Soviet mili- tary presence already has produced a peacetime impact on regional states that has enhanced Moscow's political Please turn to page 70

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RALPH TALBOT and ROBERT G. ROBLNSON

wmmmwm URING World War I the ». "TH battlefield extended into a I new arena: the sky. None H I ■ °f the band of intrepid air- I men who fought in that i new dimension did so with I greater skill or bravery 9 M than Ralph Talbot and ■HhI Robert G. Robinson.

By October 1918, the long, bitterly contested war had reached a critical juncture. Massed Allied and German armies were locked in contention for the Meuse-Argonne area of France near the Belgian border, each realizing that this could very well be the decisive battle. Vying for advantage, each com- mitted its full resources, including the embryonic air arms that both possessed.

On Oct. 8, the frail, canvas-covered, two-seat aircraft assigned to Squadron C, 1st Marine Aviation Force, were airborne behind enemy lines, seeking targets of opportunity. The pilot of one plane was 2nd Lt. Ralph Talbot; Gun- nery Sgt. Robert G. Robinson was his observer-gunner. Although Talbot was only 21 years old and Robinson only 22, both Americans already were veter- ans of air combat. Early into the flight the pair had attacked and scattered an enemy ground concentration; now they were scanning the terrain , hunting other targets.

All at once they were set upon by nine German aircraft. The hunters had become the hunted. Robinson zeroed in on one of the German planes, bringing it down, while Talbot took evasive ac- tion to shake off the superior force and streak for home.

Early the next morning Talbot and Robinson were again over enemy terri- tory, flying interdiction missions. The Meuse-Argonne battle had reached a new level of intensity, and the entire front line was aflame with action.

On Oct. 14, the pair was part of an Allied attack formation flying over Belgium when their plane developed an engine malfunction, forcing them to separate from the others. For a short while as they turned back, they had the sky all to themselves. Suddenly, they

Author of 15 books, Vernon Pizer has written more than 500 articles for lead- ing magazines throughout the world.

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The young pilot and his gunner fought a cold, dispassionate war of speed, skill and weapons. But for a Berlin-born U.S. paratrooper, war was a personal matter.

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were no longer alone — 12 enemy scout planes were closing on them rapidly. Talbot skittered his plane about eva- sively while Robinson traversed his machine gun, raking the Germans with a steady stream of bullets. The pilot succeeded in bringing the plane up on the tail of a German scout, and Robin- son hit it dead on; it exploded in a fire- ball.

As Talbot banked the plane, a Ger- man bullet struck Robinson in the elbow, ripping most of it away; simul- taneously, his machine gun jammed. Maneuvering skillfully, Talbot fended off the enemy while the gunner, work- ing with his good hand, cleared the jam. Before Robinson could resume firing he was struck twice more, in the stomach and the hip.

Stealing a quick glance back, the pilot saw that Robinson was uncon- scious. Flying the plane with one hand, Talbot manned the forward guns with the other, shooting down one of the scouts. Then he took the plane into a steep dive, leveling off only when he was within 50 feet of the ground. The maneuver forced the enemy scouts to break off.

Continuing to hug the ground, Talbot nursed the malfunctioning, shot-up little plane across the German lines. He drew heavy ground fire, but none hit a vital spot on the ailing aircraft.

Once in Allied territory, Talbot headed directly for an Army hospital, setting the plane down in a field beside it. After litter bearers removed the still- unconscious gunner, Talbot took off for home base and much-needed repairs.

Robinson eventually recovered and was sent home. Talbot, less fortunate, was shot down and killed on a sub- sequent mission. For their courage and skill, both men received the Medal of Honor. They were the first Marine Corps aviators to earn that coveted decoration.

ISADORE S. JACHMAN

/N A VERY special way, Isadore S. Jachman was fighting a personal war. Born in Berlin, he had consid- ered himself to be a loyal German citi- zen until the Germany he knew was perverted by the insanity and bestiality of Nazism into a slaughterhouse for millions of the innocent. He was one of the relatively few lucky ones; he wound up in America, where he was safe from the jackbooted Nazi extermination squads.

When the United States entered World War II, Jachman promptly en- listed in his adopted country's army, seeking to repay his debt to the land that had granted him refuge and to settle his

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ANGRY SKIES -War went airborne for the first time in World War I, and American pilots soon earned their wings of courage in dogfights over foreign lands.

personal score with the land he had fled. Assigned to the infantry, he volun- teered for training as a paratrooper. Alert, conscientious and a quick learner, he did well in jump school and had no trouble winning his para- trooper's wings. Posted to Company B of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regi- ment, 17th Airborne Division, Jachman displayed qualities of leadership and professionalism that earned him a promotion to staff sergeant.

IN THE winter of 1944-45, the 17th Airborne was bivouacked in England, undergoing its final shakedown be- fore leaving to fight on the Continent. On Dec. 16, 30 German divisions plus supporting units mounted a massive counter-offensive against the Allied forces in the Ardennes region of Bel- gium. History books would label the giant operation the Battle of the Bulge. Achieving initial surprise against the thinly held Allied lines, the Germans broke through and made a deep penetra- tion. Eight days later, the 17th Airborne Division was hurriedly airlifted across the channel and was at once committed to combat in the Ardennes.

Because the weather was so foul dur- ing the most critical phases of the Battle of the Bulge, the Allied air forces could not fly missions in close support of the ground troops. To a large extent the

battle was combat at its most elemental level: a bitter, unrelenting contest for each snow-covered hillock, each clump of trees, each crossroad village. Jachman and his comrades were blooded in a hurry.

On Jan. 4, Company B was probing the enemy near Flamierge, a small town in the Bastogne area. The unit had al- ready engaged in a minor fire-fight that morning as it moved through the woods leading to Flamierge. Jachman led one of the forward elements of the com- pany. The Americans emerged from the woods and were just beginning to cross open ground when a concealed enemy unit opened up on them with artillery, mortar and small-arms fire. Effectively pinned down by the bracketing fire, the Americans were vulnerable. Jachman directed his men to belly down into the snow-covered ground in a defensive perimeter and return fire.

A few minutes into the exchange, two German tanks lumbered over a rise, inflicting heavy casualties on the dug-in Americans. Jachman realized that the only way to prevent the tanks from wip- ing out his men was to bring bazookas — armor-piercing rocket launchers — into action against them. He looked around desperately for his bazooka man and saw that he was dead, his bazooka lying in the snow beside him. Jachman leaped to his feet and raced to the fallen

AIR SUPPORT-U.S. Marine Corps air- craft wing their way to the heavily con- tested Meuse-Argonne area of France.

soldier. Grabbing the bazooka and some rockets, he armed the weapon, raised it to his shoulder and moved toward the two tanks, firing as he went.

The Germans turned their weapons on the sergeant, but he kept coming. One of his rockets struck the nearest tank, crippling it. The battered tank turned and began to withdraw. The sec- ond tank also turned and withdrew. Wounded several times, Jachman died in the snow as both tanks retreated.

Jachman lost his life but won his personal war — he disrupted the Ger- man attack and saved his men. Three days later Flamierge was in American hands. For his bravery, Jachman was awarded the Medal of Honor. □

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The

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Miroslav Medvid

By Philip C. Clarke

SHORTLY after dark on the night of Oct. 24, 1985, a young Ukrainian seaman named Miroslav Medvid jumped from his ship, the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev, anchored in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Clutching a small, watertight jar containing his Soviet identity papers, he swam ashore, barely eluding three ship's officers who followed him. As Medvid told an inter- preter later that night, he wanted "to

Philip C. Clarke, a former AP corre- spondent, is a free-lance journalist and editor based in Greensboro, N.C.

live in an honest country."

What followed, however, was a two- week nightmare of frustration, misjudg- ments and bureaucratic procrastination, resulting in a humiliating failure of America's political-asylum process. Not only was the would-be defector denied freedom in the United States, but he was forcibly returned to the Soviet vessel twice, with the help of three Americans. When Washington tried to rectify the situation, a standoff developed between U.S. and Soviet officials, nearly provoking a serious international crisis.

All of this was reported in often- sensational news accounts at the time. But to determine exactly what had gone

REPENTED DEFECTOR -Medvid or his impostor (second from left) finally is allowed to leave his ship for an interview with U.S. immigration officials.

wrong and why, and to recommend safeguards for the future, Congress in 1986 ordered a full-scale investigation of the case, assigning it, ironically, to the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. A bipartisan group composed of 19 members of Con- gress and one representative each from the State, Defense and Commerce de- partments, the CSCE was created pri- marily to monitor Soviet compliance with the 1975 Helsinki human-rights accords.

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TWICE Medvid jumped into the river, but he was returned to the ship both times by U.S. authorities.

The CSCE's 415-page report, includ- ing appendices and exhibits, was re- leased that May, after a 10-month probe that was based on more than 300 inter- views. The remarkably detailed and revealing account reads like a horror 3 story straight out of the Cold War. g

After swimming ashore, Medvid, | dripping wet in a pullover shirt, shorts I and tennis shoes, found himself in the town of Belle Chasse, 15 miles down- stream from New Orleans. At a local shopping center, he encountered an employee leaving work. Though Med- vid spoke no English, he managed to communicate that he wished to go to the "policia" in "Novi Orleans." Despite initial misgivings, the American drove the stranger to New Orleans and dropped him off at a police precinct station.

Unable to understand what Medvid

wanted, the officers turned him over to the New Orleans Harbor Police. They, too, were baffled and called in the U.S. Border Patrol. When Border Patrol agents also failed to overcome the lan- guage barrier, the senior agent arranged a three-way telephone interview with a part-time Ukrainian translator for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York. The translator told the CSCE inves-

SEAGOING PROTEST-/rate U.S. citi- zens call for the sailor's release as they picket the Soviet freighter Konev, an- chored in the Mississippi River.

tigators that Medvid began by saying, "At last, somebody understands me!" and twice answered, "Nu, da!" — mean- ing "Oh, yes!" when asked whether he wanted political asylum. She suggested that in filling out the report on Medvid,

AMERICA STILL IS A POPULAR PLACE

CRITICS notwithstanding, the United States still is a popular place. When the State Department suspended normal immigration re- quirements for one week in January 1986, so that an extra 10,000 people could apply for visas on a first-come, first-served basis, more than 1 million requests poured in.

More than 100,000 applications arrived from Ireland in one day. About 64,000 Canadians applied. Seven thousand people called the U.S. em- bassy in Romania; 5,000 people stood in line outside our embassy in Burma. From West Berlin, 5,500 applications came the first day.

As The Wall Street Journal printed: "The United States must be doing some- thing right." The paper suggested that Canadian Lloyd Rowe of Calgary may have identified the main reason. "I'm sick and tired of being taxed to death," Rowe wrote.

While high taxes could prompt many outsiders to seek refuge in America, there is a greater attraction:

America is the land of opportunity.

In addition to economic incentives, growing numbers of the world's peo- ple seek political freedom. Since 1975, the United States has taken in more than 1 million refugees. Most of them came from communist-ruled Southeast Asia, but increasing num- bers of people are now arriving from Central America. In March 1986, the Supreme Court ruled that the govern- ment must relax its standard for decid- ing eligibility for political asylum.

Previously, the Justice Department, which administers the INS, held that a "well-founded fear" and a "clear prob- ability" were the same in proving a defector's claim that he would be killed, tortured or otherwise perse- cuted for his beliefs if he returned to his native land. But the high court said this was contrary to the intent of the Refugee Act of 1980. Under that law, eligibility for asylum requires only proof of "a well-founded fear of perse- cution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particu-

lar social group or political opinion."

INS spokesman Verne Jervis said, "We get a lot of frivolous applications from illegal aliens. They request asylum as a kind of back door into the United States. And even when they're rejected, many of them use our pro- longed appeals procedure to postpone their deportation indefinitely."

Statistics prove the point. Of the 26,107 applications for asylum re- ceived in the fiscal year ending in September 1987, only 4,062 were accepted.

Only 62 Soviet citizens applied for asylum; 32 cases have been approved, and the other 30 are pending. The reason for the low number of Soviet applicants is obvious: In order to seek asylum, Soviets first must defect. And as former Soviet defector Vladislav Krasnov explained: "The option of defection is available only for the chosen few who are allowed to travel abroad, or those daring enough to attempt to cross the border against overwhelming odds." □

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DESCRIBED as "mad as hell," a number of senators launched an 1 1 th-hour bid to prevent Medvid's deportation.

the senior agent should list "political and moral reasons" for the defection. After long consideration, however, the agent decided that Medvid was "just another ship-jumper" and should be returned to the Konev.

It was past 1 a.m. when the "ship- jumper," described as being nervous but not yet fully aware of his fate, was taken by launch to the Soviet freighter, escorted by three employees of an

American company that serviced ships in the area. There, the scene turned ugly. When the launch pulled alongside the Konev's gangway, said the CSCE report, "Medvid started screaming and shaking like a leaf. Clinging fiercely to the launch railing, he refused to go farther. Then he suddenly jumped off the launch into the river and began swimming for shore." With the Konev's second mate now on board, Raymond Guthrie, the launch pilot, tried to head off Medvid, but he reached shore just ahead of his pursuers.

The report continued, "The Soviet officer jumped onto the shore and tackled Medvid on the grassy area of the river bank. Two other Americans aboard the launch also assisted in over- powering Medvid, who was struggling to get free.

"One of the Americans later recalled

that Medvid was kicking and scream- ing, while lying on his back and 'bang- ing his head backward onto the ground. ' He finally seemed to grow tired and began sobbing uncontrollably. He screamed and shouted in a foreign lan- guage, repeating many times a word which sounded like rockne — suggested by one translator later as possibly being the Russian word prokyyatiy, meaning 'you s.o.b.'.

"Guthrie remained on the launch, directing a spotlight at the men on shore. He confirmed that Medvid re- sisted capture and struggled with the three other men ..."

After Medvid had been subdued, the launch returned to the Konev for rein- forcements. "About six or seven crew- men were taken back to shore, where they literally picked Medvid up and Please turn to page 62

TEARING DOWN THE WALL

WHEN President Reagan visited West Berlin last year and called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down the wall," oppressed people every- where hailed his reaffirmation of the right to freedom of movement. Today, however, problems plague Americas handling of communist-bloc defectors as well as the applications of thousands who yearly seek asylum here.

Only days after the failed bid for freedom by Soviet seaman Miroslav Medvid in October 1985, the highest- ranking KGB officer ever to defect to the United States, Lt.Col. Vitaly Yur- chenko, suddenly appeared at a Soviet embassy news conference to announce that after three months, he had "es- caped" from his CIA "kidnappers" and was returning home. Back in the USSR, both men are now being used to spread anti-American propaganda and to deter other would-be defectors.

The humiliating reversals sent shock waves through the U.S. intelli- gence community, and brought de- mands from an outraged Congress for sweeping investigations and reform.

Meanwhile, a study by the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations re- leased last October said the KGB has launched "a concerted, sophisticated and expanding program of harassment and intimidation meant to force the defector to return to the Soviet bloc." The program doesn't approach the violence of past KGB efforts, when

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some defectors were tracked down and assassinated. But the current Soviet intelligence offensive is making effec- tive use of "novel psychological methods" — i.e. , the carrot and the stick.

The Soviet tactics appear to be gain- ing. Although the numbers are classi- fied, high-level defections from the Soviet bloc are said to be declining while redefections are increasing.

Alarmed by this turn of events, CIA Director William Webster assured Sen- ate hearings in October that since the Yurchenko affair, the CIA has im- proved its capacity to effectively man- age high-level defectors. More agents

have been assigned to the task, he said, and measures have been adopted to reassure disenchanted defectors "by showing more concern for the indi- vidual." (Under a 1949 law, the CIA may harbor up to 100 intelligence de- fectors a year, a quota that never has been filled.)

Among the proposals emerging from the hearings are increased finan- cial support — the government cur- rently provides only $600 per capita for "refugee resettlement" — and ex- pert assistance to help defectors over- come language difficulties, acquire training and find jobs fully commen- surate with their qualifications. Other suggestions include expediting citizen- ship and setting up a 24-hour emer- gency hot line for defectors seeking immediate protection.

"The defector offers our country a unique insight into an otherwise closed world," said Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Sub- committee on Investigations. "We must learn to better assist and use the genuine defector, who usually arrives at our doorstep in his flight for free- dom with nothing more than the shirt on his back."

Added Nunn: "Even if the actions taken under glasnost begin to match the advance advertising, the Soviet Union still will have a long, long road to travel before it becomes what we call a truly open society." □

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COMER PLEDGES $1 MILLION

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flast year were ^ plucked from ^ the grip of alcoholism or I coaxed out of suicide at- U tempts . This

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impaired youths will get hands-on training in the skills of Scouting, and children will learn how to recognize and avoid physical and sexual abuse.

These are just some of the "minor miracles for youths" made possible by the American Legion Child Welfare Founda- tion Inc. , through grants funded by donations. "This year, we need $1 million to keep on help- ing our kids," said Nat'l Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer. "I'm counting on you!"

"For years to come, Legion- naires will look back on 1988 as the year of the child, thanks to the national fund drive that kicks off this month," said U.S. (Udie) Grant, president of the foundation's board of directors.

"The real beauty of this project is that we will raise the money together— the Legion, the Auxiliary and all our organizations," Comer said. "I can promise you this: The American Legion will be long remembered and appre- ciated for its efforts."

Pearl Behrend, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, said she is equally enthusiastic, and already she has passed the hat wherever her of- ficial duties have taken her. At press time, Auxiliary units had donated nearly $10,000.

For 33 years, Legionnaires, Auxiliary and Junior Auxiliary members, Eight and Forty members, SAL members,

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and others have supported the Child Welfare Foundation through their con- tributions.

The donations pour in from all cor- ners of the world. Some are large, some are small — $17 to the "Yanks" from a British veteran; $50 from a Junior Auxiliary unit in Porter, Texas; $64 from a Lyle, Wash. , woman who raffled off a quilt she made. The largest gift: $25,000 from the Pennsyl- vania American Legion Auxiliary.

Since CWF was established in 1954, it has awarded grants totaling more than $2 million to non-profit organiza- tions and agencies dedicated to the health and welfare of America's chil- dren and youths. This year alone, CWF has awarded $137,500 in grants.

"Any post or department may apply

for CWF grants to conduct worthy projects on behalf of chil- dren," Grant said. "For example, a $14,000 grant was awarded this year to American Legion Post 59, Aberdeen, Idaho, to publish a booklet for sexually abused children.

"Although the foundation doesn't have the money to award the six- and seven-figure grants that large U.S. foundations can afford," Grant said, "we still get a lot of mileage out of our dol- lars. Traditionally, the board of directors seeks projects that are important but whose financial needs are relatively small.

"We use the same principle for awarding grants today as the CWF founder, Dr. Garland D. Murphy Jr. , used during the early days of the foundation," Grant said. He was referring to the "seedling" principle cham- pioned by Murphy, who believed that the wise use of small amounts of money could out- produce the extravagant use of large amounts of money.

Murphy, in fact, had witnessed that principle in action as early as 1948, when the Legion and Auxiliary — con- cerned about children with rheumatic heart disease — gave a seed grant to the fledgling American Heart Association. A few years later the Legion awarded a similar grant to the National Associa- tion for Mental Health. In both in- stances, Murphy noticed, the Legion grants alerted the nation to important, but little-known, causes and set off a chain reaction of donations from other sources. The Legion gifts, in effect, had clearly provided the seed money for both agencies to become national health-research organizations. Through the success of the "Founda- ( Please turn to page 56)

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Foundation with a

FUTURE

CHILDHOOD-^ rapid blur of motion and experience racing to the future. The Child Welfan

WORTHY GOAL — Each Amer- ican child should grow up as happy and healthy as possible.

'We need $1 million to keep un helping our kids. I'm counting on you!'

John P. "Joke" Comer, Natl Cmdr.

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1986 grants ap- proved by the Child Welfare Foundation include: American Legion Auxiliary National Headquarters, In- dianapolis, $72,500; Aplastic Anemia Foundation of Amer- ica, Inc., Bal- timore, Md., $22,500; Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foun- dation, Collins- ville, Conn., $18,000; Genoa Youth Center, Gen- oa, Neb., $7,000; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, New York, N.Y., $22,500; Kansas Educational Endowment Program, $2,000; Parents Anonymous, Missoula, Mont., $7,500; Va- riety Pre-Schooler's Workshop, Syosset, N.Y., $21,500; Voice of the Blind, Bethel, Maine, $17,000; „ Guardians of Hydro- | cephalus Research ° Foundation, Brooklyn, 1 N.Y., $18,000.

VARIETY - CWF grants benefit chil- dren in numerous ways, such as pub- lishing comic books on child abuse and sup- porting research on childhood dis- eases.

oundation helps each child be a winner.

"CHILDREN do not make up 1 00 percent of our population, but they sure make up 1 00 percent of our future. You can help make theirs a better future and ours a better world by sending your contribution to The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation today. Take the enclosed self- addressed envelope and send $10, $15 or whatever you can afford. I'm counting on your support, and I know America's veterans will come through for our kids!"

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AMERICA'S SERVICEMEN

HARDSHIP DUTY

THOME

By Phyllis Zauner

HEN I see him stand- ing up there in uni- form, the way he holds his head ... it makes me proud." Renee said about her husband, Casey, a Marine lance corporal. "He's doing something that makes him feel good, and I know it's important to him to have someone here to share it with."

But Casey will not have his wife and children with him much longer. Family life is a luxury he can't afford. After the couple's third child is born, Renee will leave the one-bedroom apartment near Alameda Naval Air Station in Califor- nia and go back to Chicago to live with her parents. She sees no way to squeeze in another crib, and she's not sure she can stretch her food budget to feed another mouth.

Casey's base pay is $800 a month before taxes. The off-base-housing allowances he receives fall $100 short of paying the $515-a-month rent on his family's present quarters, and a two- bedroom apartment would cost at least $675 in the exorbitantly high-rent San Francisco Bay area. So Renee and the kids will move to Chicago, and Casey will take bachelor quarters on the base.

Renee knows that military and pri- vate relief agencies could help. But her husband is too proud to accept any help.

The story is not an uncommon one. Thousands of low-ranking military people are struggling to raise families on pay and housing allowances that do

Phyllis Zauner, a Sacramento-based au- thor of more than 400 articles, writes on social conditions in America.

For many military men and women in lower pay grades, substandard housing is all they can afford for their families.

not cover the cost of living in cities along the East Coast and in the San Francisco area, which even higher-paid officers call "hardship duty." In dire financial shape, military families scramble for food and clothing, share apartments or are forced to split up. David Ciechanowski, chief of Army Community Services at San Francisco Presidio, said, "If they're making pay- ments on a car, they're in tight straits."

STATISTICS tell the story. Junior enlisted people (E-3 and below) receive a basic off-base-quarters allowance of $253 a month, supple- mented by a variable housing allow- ance. In some states and in rural areas, there is no variable housing allowance. In San Francisco, it's $275, the highest in the nation; in Oakland, it's $ 160. The allowance is the same whether the serv- ice person has five dependents or none.

When the allowance was introduced in 1981, it was supposed to make up the difference between the basic allowance for quarters and the actual cost of rent. But a cost-cutting Congress, appalled at the way the extra allowance was soaring in some areas, froze the rate.

Military families who live in West

Germany, Japan, Alaska and Hawaii do get a percentage boost — but that's not available in the continental United States. "California is worse than Alaska," said one sergeant, whose car bears parking stickers from a half- dozen bases. "Up there we got a cost- of-living adjustment."

A Department of Defense study shows that 21 percent of all military families live in substandard housing because allowances don't cover off- base costs. This applies especially to grades E-3 and below. In fact, a recent DoD report to the Armed Services com- mittees showed that half of all junior enlisted people who live in off-base housing live below DoD standards of minimum acceptability. According to DoD standards, housing is unaccept- able if there are not enough bedrooms to ensure that no more than two dependents share a room.

In many cases, according to the DoD, junior enlisted people pay their entire basic allowances and nearly $300 a month more for a two-bedroom apart- ment, not including utilities.

Part of the squeeze stems from the fact that the military has changed. It's no longer made up of footloose young bachelors living in barracks and eating at the mess hall. Twenty-eight percent of the first-term soldiers in today's Army are married, and there's not nearly enough on-base family housing to accommodate them.

"The percentage of married soldiers has skyrocketed in the past five or six years with the volunteer Army," said Ciechanowski. "The Army is recruiting more established people now. A lot of people are looking at the Army as a place to raise a family."

As early as 1983, the Army's chief of staff reported, "The Army's willingness to acknowledge the critical role families play in its mission has moved from

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SKY-HIGH -Most young military families living in high-cost areas such as San Francisco rarely make ends meet.

studied neglect, through selective inclu- sion of families, to a sense that the development of a family philosophy is imperative."

Still, dozens of soldiers and seamen feel that the true attitude hinges on an old military adage: "If we wanted you to have a wife, we would have issued you one."

Housing problems do not exist everywhere in the nation. Low-cost trailer parks line the perimeters of bases in some states, and rural towns near some bases exist solely as a result of the military. But that only makes it more difficult for members of Congress from California to persuade their colleagues to vote for military-housing funds.

In San Francisco, the situation is expected to become acute when the battleship Missouri and its escort ships become home-ported there. That will bring 6,000 sailors into an area where there is already a shortage of 2,000 apartments. Military planners hope that leasing arrangements with private de- velopers will ease the crunch by 1992.

Meanwhile, Army Community Serv- ices and other such organizations are working to ease the burden on low- ranking enlisted people, who generally have not yet accumulated nest eggs, by offering no-interest loans that will pay the first-and-last-month rents they need

Half of the junior enlisted people living in off-base housing live below DoD standards of acceptability.

GETTING WORSE-The carrier Enter- prise, home-ported in San Francisco, will be joined shortly by the battleship Mis- souri, which will bring its 6,000- man crew to an area already short 2,000 apartments.

to get into an apartment. Emergency food lockers also are widely available, and the San Francisco Presidio has a unique program that releases unsold commissary food once a week.

"This is no soup kitchen," insisted Ciechanowski, who is in charge of the program. "We're not just giving food; we give nutritional advice. People in the program meet others in the same predicament and arrange carpooling or babysitting pools."

Still, many enlisted people see it as a form of welfare, and they resent the fact that they can't support themselves. Many of them are too proud to ask for help and don't like to admit that there isn't enough food. The government food- stamp program seldom applies since it is based on gross entitlement and the ceiling is below what they are paid.

All of these problems play a big role in determining whether or not enlisted people stay in service. "If they don't perceive it as a feasible lifestyle for their families, they're going to get out," said Ciechanowski.

That puts the ball back in Congress' court. The central issue is an adjustment in the variable housing allowance. Said a Navy housing spokesman at the Penta- gon, "Congress has just not let variable housing do what it was supposed to do." □

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BEAUTY MOST FOWL— A painting of three redheads was selected as the design for the 1988 U.S. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp.

THOSE MILLION-DOLLAR

DUCKS!

By Gary Turbak

NE day in November 1986, Wisconsin artist Arthur Anderson got a phone call about a duck that eventu- ally will make him a mil- lionaire. Like 800 other wildlife painters, Anderson had entered the annual duck-stamp art contest sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. When judges named his paint- ing of redheads the best of the flock, Anderson joined the elite ranks of duck- made millionaires.

Each year U.S.

wildlife artists enter their own

world series, where they can win big bucks for painting ducks.

Hatched in the 1930s, the duck stamp since has soared to fantastic heights, raising millions of dollars for wildlife, and bestowing prestige and riches on the artists who win the annual design contest. The duck-stamp contest has, in fact, become the most lucrative art competition anywhere. "It's the world series of wildlife painting," said Min- nesota art dealer Bill Webster. "And virtu- ally every artist has a chance to win."

In the dusty days of the 1930s, drought swept across the land, and hard

Gary Turbak, a regular contributor to this magazine, is an award-winning jour- nalist based in Missoula, Mont.

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times drove farmers to plant crops on every available acre. Millions of wet- lands disappeared, and waterfowl num- bers plummeted. In 1934, at the insis- tence of conservationist and political cartoonist Ding Darling, Congress moved to reverse that trend by passing the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act. The Duck Stamp Act, as it is commonly called, requires waterfowlers over the age of 16 to purchase special federal stamps for their hunting licenses. The proceeds are used to acquire waterfowl habitats.

BUT before any stamps could be sold, someone had to create a paint- ing. Darling did the first one — a pair of mallards — and for each of the next 14 years officials simply asked another noted artist to produce a design. In 1949, however, the USF&WS insti- tuted a contest to select the painting for that year's stamp. Only eight artists entered that first competition, but the egg had been laid.

By 1981, contest administrators and judges found themselves buried be- neath 2,100 paintings. Though a $50 entry fee now eliminates most silly and eccentric entries, hundreds of artists participate in the contest each year.

The event has been no less colorful than the birds it serves. "We've had Daffy Ducks and goofy ducks and even one entry showing a swan with a trum- pet behind it — a 'trumpeter' swan," recalled Pete Anastasi, former contest administrator. One entry featured a hunter sleeping in a blind with a duck sitting on his head. Another painting depicted a duck standing on a lake shore flapping its wings; one wing was ex- quisitely done, but the other consisted of a skeleton with a lone feather protrud- ing from the end.

A few weeks before the 1975 contest, officials received a letter claiming that the event was rigged and predicting who would win. When the judges in- deed gave the top award to the painting mentioned in the letter, a major scandal threatened to erupt. However, it was nothing more than a lucky guess.

One year, the winning painting was of geese standing in a field. Close in- spection showed that the birds' wings were clipped and that corn lay around their feet. The artist had simply used tame geese as models, but the painting appeared to depict live decoys and bait being used to lure wild birds to hunters. Since both those techniques are illegal and unethical, authorities removed the

offending elements before sending the painting to the stamp engraver.

Officially, the winner receives only a sheet of stamps featuring his painting, but artists have learned to build huge nest eggs for themselves by selling thousands of prints of their winning entries. According to Webster, the duck- stamp contest is worth at least a million dollars to the winning artist.

In 1934, about 650,000 stamps were purchased at $1 each, and with wet- lands selling for as little as 77 cents per acre, a lot of habitats came back to the birds' side of the ledger. Today, duck- stamp sales annually raise more than $14 million from hunters, stamp collec-

tors and conservation-minded people. The 5 3 -year-old program has garnered $313 million that has been used to pre- serve 3.7 million acres of wetlands and nesting habitats for waterfowl.

The price of the stamp has climbed from $7.50 to $10, but that only means more money for ducks. "Out of that $ 10, no more than 26 cents will be spent on production costs." said Norma Op- grand, coordinator of the duck-stamp program. "The rest will all be used to acquire wildlife habitats."

Again this November the phone will ring in the studio of some lucky artist. The caller will have a million-dollar message about a duck. □

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mm

The Soviets have far more

I subs than the I United States. • But former Navy I Secretary John

Lehman defends S the Navy's ; choice of quality

over quantify.

By Steve Salerno

OS THE United States spending and relying too much on its nuclear sub- marines at the expense of conventional subs? Ask former Navy Secretary John Lehman for his as- sessment of the debate on nuclear vs. diesel sub- marines, and his reply is typically forth- right:

"There's certainly no debate in the Navy or the Pentagon," he said. "We have stated and restated what every- body knows: Diesel-electric subs are very good for certain purposes, but they cannot replace nuclear subs. They just don't do what nuclear subs do."

Never one to pull punches, Lehman added, "Some people who know little about naval matters keep suggesting that diesel subs are an alternative to nuclear submarines. But it takes two

Steve Salerno is a California-based free- lance journalist whose articles appear in a variety of America 's most respected magazines.

parties to debate, and we don't see any- thing to debate."

In spite of Lehman's words, a debate does exist, and like most disagreements between Congress and the Pentagon, it involves money. Some members of Con- gress question whether we are getting an adequate payback from our invest- ment in a nuclear-powered armada, which includes aircraft carriers as well as submarines. Indeed, building nu- clear submarines can be a nine-figure proposition. The new Seawolf class of supersubs, scheduled for deployment toward the end of the decade, may cost nearly $1.6 billion apiece. Nuclear subs are complex affairs; each is essentially built to individual specifications. Years can go by before delivery takes place.

Diesel subs, on the other hand, are assembly-line projects. They are much cheaper to build, and most of the work can be farmed out to a ready pool of domestic and foreign jobbers that are experienced in the mass production of the vessels. Delivery is correspondingly quicker. At a time when the Pentagon has made no bones about the Soviets' vast numerical advantage, congres- sional critics wonder why a financially constrained Navy would want to wait twice as long for half as many ships.

The answer is the only meaningful criterion as far as Lehman and the Navy are concerned: performance at sea.

At one time, the Soviets deployed most of their subs in the Atlantic and Pacific. Now they are clustering an increasing number of ballistic-missile submarines back toward the polar ice cap. From beneath the arctic perma- frost, remote as it sounds, the Soviets can unleash a staggering atomic blitz- krieg. A Russian submarine of the Typhoon class harbors 20 missiles, each of which is equipped with multiple, independently targeted warheads. In

theory, one submarine could single- handedly wipe out all of America's great cities.

As the Navy sees it, it is impossible to overstate the importance of hunting down such subs.

Diesel subs are too noisy for that. "They're very good when they're on battery," Lehman acknowledged, but under high-speed operation, "they have to recharge about every three hours or so." Recharging necessitates rising near the surface to run the air-breathing diesel motors. The sophisticated sonar equipment that both sides commonly use can spot diesel subs as readily as if they were mammoth icebergs; in fact, this equipment is so sensitive that it can identify specific types of submarines by the sounds of their pumps and motors.

Our shortage of subs compared with the Soviets makes stealthy subs impera- tive. The Soviet Union currently out- numbers the United States 3-to-l in naval attack subs (once called "U-boats") and more than 2-to-l in ballistic-missile-bearing submarines. The gap is widening, too; the Kremlin's accelerated building schedule puts eight to 12 new subs in the water each year, compared with our four. In war- time, an American sub that is detected in the distant, icy reaches of the Barents Sea can count upon being quickly sur-

LASTS LONGER — Nuclear subs are harder to detect than diesel subs and can run for years without refueling.

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'IN THEORY, ONE SUBMARINE COULD SINGLE-HANDEDLY WIPE OUT ALL OF AMERICA'S GREAT CITIES.'

rounded by a bevy of Soviet attack subs. Moreover, although our sleek, single-hull-design subs are much quieter and more agile than the Soviet versions, we pay for those benefits in terms of ruggedness; their chances of surviving a direct hit are not as good as those of the double-hulled Soviet "water tanks." The result, according to one Navy source, is that "even if our sub takes one or two of their subs down with it, it's a losing game."

ASIDE from the noise issue, diesel subs are not suited for the search- and-destroy missions that form the basis of America's "forward- deployment" naval game plan. They simply are not built for racing across foreign waters. Said Lehman, "Diesel subs are useless for moving with the carriers that operate at 30 knots, and they are useless for operations that re- quire long transits — which are our pri- mary naval operations."

The nuclear sub's great advantage in this area is its bountiful source of elec- trical energy. "You don't have to worry about stopping and charging batteries," explained Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bob Pritch- ard. "Instead of coming to the surface,

you can stay down," thus avoiding the inconvenience of having to surface and snorkel during a hot pursuit.

Pritchard added that because of the fuel requirements of their conventional motors, diesel submarines are range- limited. "The fuel resources they have on board are finite," he said. "They have only a certain amount of diesel fuel." By contrast, nuclear submarines normally are refueled no more than once every seven years.

The Navy stressed that none of this is to be interpreted as a blanket condemna- tion of diesel vessels. "They're very effective for operations close to home," Lehman said. "There, you don't have to transit at speed, and you can stay on battery from one to three knots for more than 24 hours without having to sur- face." He pointed out that our current naval strategy relies on NATO's diesel submarines to provide coastal defense of Europe while most of our fleet chases the Soviet forces elsewhere.

But in the final analysis, the issue is really one of values and priorities. Rec- ognizing that we probably cannot win a war of numbers with the Soviets, the Navy's position in recent years has been to pursue quality at the expense of quan-

ENDURANCE— The Ohio-class ballistic- missile submarines have the speed to keep up with aircraft carriers.

tity. Noting the overwhelming Soviet edge in sheer numbers, Adm. Bruce Demars told a Senate subcommittee, "We've been able to maintain a reasona- ble margin of security against these odds only through the technical superiority of our submarines."

Another Navy source put it more sim- ply: "All things considered, we would rather have 100 Los Angeles-c\ass nu- clear subs than 300 diesel subs." □

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Veterans update

K

■ Beeping a promise he made to numerous Legion- naires during his travels across the nation, Nat'l Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer has arranged for a POW/MIA open forum to be held Feb. 29 during the Washington Conference.

"Many Legionnaires, especially members of local POW/ MIA committees, told us that they feel they are being shortchanged or receiving lip service whenever they try to express their views on the issue to Washington officials," Comer said. "In fact, most of them said they would be willing to pay their own way to Washington if I could arrange a face- to-face meeting with those government officials who are responsible for resolving the POW/MIA matter."

Comer said that nearly every post he has visited promi- nently displayed a POW/MIA flag and an empty chair as graphic reminders that "the return of our POW/MIAs is a major concern of our members. Arranging for this forum is one way to show them that it is a major concern of the national organization as well."

Among the officials invited to participate in the forum are: Richard T. Childress, director of Asian and Pacific affairs. National Security Council staff; Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA (Ret.), special POW/MIA emissary of the President; Brig. Gen. James W. Shufelt, deputy director of operations, plans and training, Defense Intelligence Agency; Richard L. Armitage, assistant secretary of defense. International Security Affairs; George L. Brooks, chairman. National League of POW/MIA Families; Albert J. Bland, national commander of American Ex-Prisoners of War; and Keith Baker, chairman, the American Legion Special POW/MIA Committee.

Comer said the forum will include discussions about POW/MIAs of World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Legion testimony to Congress criticizing the

way the VA is treating radiation-exposed veterans has apparently paid off. On July 28, the House passed a bill to provide benefits to these veterans and their survivors. H.R. 1811, which has been sent to the Senate for further action, would recognize several diseases that the Legion has urged be considered service-connected for compensation purposes.

With the exception of chronic lymphatic leukemia, the diseases include all other forms of leukemia; thyroid cancer; bronchogenic carcinoma; pancreatic cancer; breast cancer; and cancers of the pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon. The bill, sponsored by Rep. J. Roy Rowland of Georgia, would require the VA to pay benefits to certain veterans exposed to radiation while in service if those veterans developed any of the aforementioned types of cancer within 30 years of exposure and suffered at least 10 percent disability as a result. Radiation exposure must have occurred as a result of nuclear testing from 1945 to 1963, or during the occupation of Japan before 1946.

The DoD estimates about 220,000 military personnel were exposed to low levels of radiation in atmospheric nuclear test explosions from 1945 to 1963, and in the military occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped atomic bombs.

So far the VA has denied disability claims for all but 28 of the nearly 6,000 veterans who claim to be suffering from cancer or other radiation-linked diseases. VA Administrator Thomas K. Turnage said the federal government opposed H.R. 1811 because the diseases are presumed — not proved — to be service-connected. VA officials also said the bill represents a radical departure from the principle that veterans' benefits should be directly connected to military service.

In earlier testimony before the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, a Legion spokesman told U.S. lawmakers that "veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation while serving in the U.S. armed forces continue to find it exceed- ingly difficult, if not impossible, to receive favorable determination on their disability-compensation claims.

"It has been known for more than 40 years that exposure to ionizing radiation is dangerous to human health, yet nothing has been done to help veterans who were unknowingly exposed to high levels of radiation," the spokesman said. "So far as The American Legion is concerned, it is the U.S. government that has been neither responsible nor responsive to these veterans."

D

Wranch-of-service inscriptions for veterans

headstones and markers are now being provided by the VA at government expense. Until a recent policy change, multiple- branch inscriptions were permitted below the last line of the authorized inscription, but only at private expense.

In another change of policy, the VA is delivering all headstones and markers by private carrier. Headstones traditionally have been shipped by private carrier, but bronze markers now are being handled in the same manner. VA officials said that all requests for headstones and markers must include a street address because post-office box num- bers cannot be used for shipping purposes.

A government headstone or marker is furnished to mark the graves of veterans and their dependents interred in national cemeteries and, upon request, to mark the graves of veterans interred in private cemeteries.

Legislation tO Correct an oversight in provisions of the new GI Bill should have little trouble passing the House, according to Washington sources. The GI Bill, passed last June, inadvertently allows the government to keep money paid into a college-education fund by military men and women who were killed on active duty.

The Legion is joined by other veterans' organizations, as well as DoD officials and members of Congress, in support- ing a change in the bill that would return the education contributions of deceased military men and women to their next of kin. Legion Res. 2, passed at this year's convention, supports the change.

"The U.S. Treasury should not benefit from the deaths of these soldiers," said Rep. Jim Slattery of Kansas. "It is an inequity created by Congress, and Congress must correct it."

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Ho matter what branch you served in, your unit was your family. You depended on them to get you through, to protect you in a crisis. Today you are back home with your regular family, but what would happen to them if something should happen to you? What unit would get them through?

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As a Legionnaire under the age of 70, you are invited to apply by completing the application on the following page. Con- sult the benefit chart according to your age, choose the number of units you want, and mail with your check or money order for the current premium amount.

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CERTAIN STATES have requirements not satisfied by the enrollment card below. If you reside in one of those states, your enroll- ment and check will be returned to you to fulfill those requirements. If that is neces- sary, your enrollment will not be processed until the additional form is returned to us. ANNUAL PREMIUM TO SEND WITH YOUR ENROLLMENT. The premiums shown above are for the balance of 1988 for approved enrollments effective Feb. 1,1988. Premiums for enrollments effective Mar. 1 or later are proportionately less, by S2 PER UNIT PER MONTH, and any overpayments will be re- funded. Premiums accompanying non- approved enrollments will be refunded in full.

EFFECTIVE DATE. Your insurance becomes effective on the first day of the month

BENEFITS— Yearly Renewable Reducing Term Insurance (Policy Form GPC-5700-781) Benefits determined by age at death and include 15% SPECIAL INCREASE for deaths occurring during 1988. Maximum coverage limited to 14 units.

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*No persons age 70 or over (including those desiring additional coverage) will be accepted for new insurance. 13, 11, 9, 7, 5 and 3 units also available. Please write for details.

coinciding with or next following the date your enrollment is received, subject to In- surance Company's approval. Insurance may be maintained in force by payment of premiums when due.

INCONTESTABILITY. Your coverage shall be incontestable after it has been in force dur- ing your lifetime for two years from its effec- tive date.

Make check payable to: The American Legion Life Insurance Plan and mail to: The American Legion Life Insurance Plan P.O. Box 5609 • Chicago, IL 60680

Plan insured by Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company.

Enrollment Subject to Underwriter's Approval

ENROLLMENT CARD FOR YEARLY RENEWABLE TERM LIFE INSURANCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION

Full Name

Birth Date

Mo Day Year

Permanent Residence Name of Beneficiary _

City

Zip

Example Print "Helen Louise Jones" Not "Mrs H L Jones"

.Relationship .

Membership Card No.

I apply for the number of units indicated: j^J

_Year_

Post No..

State.

The following representations shall form a basis for the Insurance Company's approval or rejection of this enrollment. Answer all questions.

1. Present occupation? Are you now actively working?

Yes □ No □ If no, give reason

2. Have you been confined in a hospital within the last year? length of stay and cause

No □ Yes □ If yes, give date,

3. During the last five years, have you had heart disease, circulatory disease, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease, diabetes, or cancer, or have you had or received treatment or medication for high blood pressure or alcoholism? No □ Yes □ If yes, give details

I represent that to the best of my knowledge, all statements and answers recorded on this enrollment card are true and complete. I agree that this enrollment card shall be a part of any insurance granted upon it under the policy. I authorize any physician or other person who has attended or examined me, or who may attend or examine me, to disclose or to testify to any knowledge thus acquired.

Signature of

Dated 19 Applicant

The American Legion offers this insurance through Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company.

Home Office: Los Angeles, California

GMA-300-19 12-79

(Univ)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION

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I have received and read the Notice of Disclosure of Information at right. Further, I authorize any physician, medical practi- tioner, hospital, clinic, or other medical or medically related facility, insurance company, the Medical Information Bureau or other organization, institution or person having any records or knowledge of me or of my health to give Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company any such information. A photographic copy of this authorization shall be as valid as the original.

Dated

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Signature of Applicant

□ I apply for additional Legion Life Insurance. My present certificate number is

NOTICE OF DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

Information regarding your in- surability will be treated as con- fidential except that Trans- america Occidental Life In- surance Co. may make a brief report to the Medical Information Bureau (M.I.B.) a non-profit membership organization of life insurance companies which operates an information exchange on behalf of its members. Upon request by another member in- surance company to which you have applied for life or health in- surance, or to which a claim is submitted, the M.I.B. will supply such company with the informa- tion it may have in its files.

The Company may also release information in its file to its rein- surers and to other life insurance companies to which you may ap- ply for life or health insurance, or to which a claim is submitted.

Upon receipt of a request from you, the M.I.B. will arrange dis- closure of any information it may have in your file. Medical infor- mation will only be disclosed to your attending physician. If you question the accuracy of informa- tion in the Bureau's file you may seek correction in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. The address of the Bureau's information office is P.O. Box 105, Essex Station, Boston, Mass. 02112; Phone (617) 426-3660.

Legion news briefs

Legion Disagrees With CDC Decision On Agent Orange

rHE Agent Orange Study by the Centers for Disease Con- trol is dangerously close to being canceled. After two rocky years, CDC has decided that it cannot complete the study, saying that not enough soldiers were exposed to significant levels of the herbicide. The decision was based on a dioxin-valida- tion study that compared the amounts of dioxin in the blood of more than 700 veterans— 600 who served in Vietnam and 100 who served in other countries. The purpose of the study reportedly was to determine the usefulness of military records in estimating ground troops' exposure to Agent Orange.

The American Legion has criticized CDC's conclusion that the Agent Orange Study cannot be done. Legion officials have pointed out that the United States sprayed 10 million to 12 million gallons of Agent Orange over Vietnam— a country that is smaller than New Jersey. "Thus it is absurd to say that there are not enough people to study," a Legion spokesman said.

The Legion voiced its concern about the composition of the study more than a year ago. Among the veterans elimi- nated from consideration were those who served more than one tour in Viet- nam, those who served in a unit for fewer than 180 days, persons above the rank of E-5 and those who transferred from one unit to another during their tours. The spokesman said about 83 percent of the original study subjects were disqualified based on the criteria set by CDC. "There is no doubt that many were heavily exposed to Agent Orange," he said.

NatT Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer said the Legion will continue to push for an Agent Orange Study. "It is the responsibility of the federal govern- ment to use all resources available to determine the effects of Agent Orange and then to adequately compensate those veterans who have incurred dis- Please turn to page 54

OBSERVANCE — Nat'l Cmdr. John P. "Jake" Comer (second from left) salutes the nation's war veterans during the 34th annual Veterans Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery. The event, which was accompanied by a storm that dumped 15 inches of snow on the Washington area, featured a wreath-laying ceremony that included President Reagan and other military and government leaders. The American Legion hosted the observance.

Using APO, FPO Can Save Money

ZEGIONNAIRES living in foreign countries who are eligi- ble to use APO or FPO addresses are asked to provide National Headquarters with those addresses. Use of the APO or FPO mailing addresses can not only speed up delivery of The American Legion Magazine and other correspondence, but also can save the Legion a considerable amount of money in postage, which could be used more productively for Legion programs.

Headquarters officials request that Legionnaires who are not already using APO or FPO addresses submit change- of-address notices to Circulation Dept. , The American Legion, P.O. Box 1954, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

THANKS A MILLION!
Donors who have contributed $50
or more to the American Legion
Child Welfare Foundation as of
Nov. 13:
Robert Porter	Florida
Arthur R Oger	West Virginia
Robert C. Preble Jr.	Illinois
Harry Wright	Mexico
William E. Christoffersen	Utah
Joseph Holzka	New York
Donald E. Johnson	Iowa
Bob Scott	Oregon
Patricia Comer	New York
Sen. Francis Doris	Massachusetts
Veterans Life Insurance Co.	Pennsylvania
Robert F. Marek	Idaho
Margaret Wilson	Massachusetts
Ruth Berry	Iowa
Thomas M. Llewellyn	Kansas
Germaine Desjarlais	Florida
Alma Pierson	Massachusetts
Boston Whaler's Co.	Massachusetts
W.R Petersen	Montana
Melville W. and Belmeda Pratt	Massachusetts
Gina (wishes to remain anonymous)	Illinois
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lawson	Massachusetts
Gilberto M. Font	Puerto Rico
Oliver A. Watkins	Arizona
Norma Lee Clise	West Virginia
Sarah Elam	Virginia
Beta Sigma Phi Alpha	New Hampshire

JANUARY 1988

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THE DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS

'87-'88

Clayton E. Moneymaker Thomas V. Ruff

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James B. Kirk Martha (Marty) McQuain MikeCanales Arizona Arkansas California

Patrick Neumann Canada

Tillson Gorsuch Raymond R. Bigelow Thomas Wootten Colorado Connecticut Delaware

Sotero Garcia D.C.

Robert J. Proctor Michael R.Verville Florida France

Mary B. Howard Georgia

Kenneth McAtee Hawaii

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Earl B.Colby, Jr. Maine

R. Lee Fisher Maryland

Paul A. Morin Massachusetts

Frank H. Nolan Mexico

Roy B. Cicotte Lloyd M. Ricker Michigan Minnesota

Clayton Thompson Mississippi

Oscar Walterman Missouri

Louis P. Fuhringer Michael D. Helm Montana Nebraska

Don L. Cirac Nevada

Louis F. Milinazzo New Hampshire

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Timothy P. Carmody New Jersey

Cas Novak New Mexico

Frank J. D'Amico New York

Jerry L. Hedrick North Carolina

Aaron "Moody" Dalke Richard J. Cherry North Dakota Ohio

James C. Morton Oklahoma

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Ronald F. Conley Pennsylvania

William H. Sener Philippines

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Wayne McLean Vermont

William R. Bryant Charles J. Benson J. Carl Durham Virginia Washington WestVirginia

Robert C. Weyenberg Owen Heins Wisconsin Wyoming

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AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

Can you afford to be without TRAVELMATE©?

Compare the cost of the TRAVELMATE Travel and Road Assistance Program© to the competition and you will find that TRAVELMATE© offers you the most comprehensive benefit package at the lowest price. Join the TRAVELMATE Travel and Road Assistance Program© today and receive the following benefits:

You will be reimbursed up to $35 for the follow- ing emergency services:

Emergency Towing

Emergency Fuel Delivery

Emergency Flat Tire Replacement

Emergency Locksmith Services

Plus the following high limit auto benefits...

%t $1,000 Auto Theft Reward

$1,000 Emergency Transportation Expense

And...

Professional Auto Trip Planning

The preceding benefits are provided by the CIGNA Road & Travel Club, Inc.

PLUS THESE GREAT BENEFITS...

- Discount Travel International

^ $25,000 Travel Accident Insurance Policy

24-Hour Medical/Legal Hotline

Compare the cost of TRAVELMATE© to other leading programs!

	TRAVEL MATE© Program	AARP MOTOR CLUB	N.Y.C. Area AAA	Chicago Area AAA	So. Calif. Area AAA
Annual Cost For Member	$ 21.95	$ 29.50	$ 40.00	$ 40.00	$ 50.00
Additional Family Member	NONE	NONE	9.00	3.00	13.00
Initiation Fee	NONE	NONE	5.00	NONE	NONE
First Year Cost For Member & Spouse	$ 21.95	$ 29.50	$ 54.00	$43.00	$ 63.00

To enroll in the TRAVELMATE Pro- gram©, simply complete the applica- tion and return it with your check or money order to: TRAVELMATE, P.O. Box 956, Schenectady, NY 12301.

The chart above is a comparison of cost only. Actual benefits may vary. Comparisons based upon membership solicitation materials received in 1987.

TRAVELMATE'S© numerous benefits are provided by insurance and travel industry leaders including: The CIGNA Road and Travel Club Inc., Discount Travel International and ACCESS AMERICA a subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The program is administered by Jardine Emett & Chandler East Inc., specialists in the administration and marketing of group insurance programs.

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Please provide the name of the Beneficiary of your $25,000 Travel Accident Insurance Policy. Beneficiary

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NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEMEN

'87-88

Andrew J. Cooper Alabama

lliam M. Bishop Dr. C. L. Vawter, Jr. Alaska Arizona

Lawrence E. Fisher Arkansas

Lloyd Higginson California

H. Rena Chaplin Canada

Charles Pat Smith Richard W. Anderson Colorado Connecticut

Robert J. Lauer Delaware

Robert L. Waters D.C.

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George L. Derrick William S. Lombardo W. D. Harrell Robert J. Conrad Florida France Georgia Hawaii

Lyle Hupfer Idaho

James V. Kissner Gilbert E. Sheeks Illinois Indiana

Leo Maynard Iowa

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Anthony G. Jordan Talmage C. Carawan John J. Mulkern Maine Maryland Massachusetts

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Fred M. I ngel lis Mississippi

Jerome N. Roach Missouri

C. Hal Manson Montana

Wayne Davis Nebraska

Charles F. Langel Joseph E. Caouette Nevada New Hampshire

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James H. Hall New Jersey

Robert W. Durand New Mexico

Donald E. Klein New York

Robert A. Tart North Carolina

Robert E. Hennessy Dominic V. Belloni North Dakota Ohio

Tom C. Smith Oklahoma

T. Les Galloway Oregon

Romeo J. Routhier Panama Canal

Joseph V. Adams Pennsylvania

Ernesto P. Golez Philippines

Juan H. Cintron Puerto Rico

Robert Miles, Jr. Rhode Island

E. Roy Stone South Carolina

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Donald Clarke South Dakota

James T. Waters Tennessee

Harvey Holcomb Wm. E. Christoffersen Milton Willis, Jr. Texas Utah Vermont

Emmett B. Burley Virginia

Clint Stebing Washington

JackT. Gribben West Virginia

Jerry A. Kautzer Wisconsin

David E. Nauman Wyoming

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AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

Why Are We Offering This Nationally Advertised WAVEM ASTER- 180 M SPORT BOAT for

FREE BONUS

As part of a nationwide advertising campaign, the leading .New York outdoor equipment firm of RBM & Co will offer its successful nationally advertised WAVE- M ASTER-180 SPORT BOAT for theastonishing price of only $10 to every person who writes to the company address (below) before Midnight, March 31, 1988.

These are the same WAV EM ASTER- 180s nationally advertised by the company in leading media throughout America. Inflating to almost five feet in length and nearly 12 square feet in area, they are one of the most exciting outdoor items ever sold by this leading multi-million-dollar supplier. Yet your price is only $10 during this publicity campaign.

A whiz on the water!

These spunky craft are real performers. Sleek and trim, they handle like a dream in either fresh or salt water. They're perfect for beach fun, a season at the lake, or as a dinghy for your regular boat. The whole boat (all 12 square feet!) actually folds away to a mere 5 inches thin — to fit in its own handy carry case. And it inflates to full size in just minutes! (See FREE pump offer.)

Each WAVEMASTER-180 also includes a braided tow rope, plus integral oarlocks and double air-chamber floor. No wonder this was designated as the company's sole luxury sport boat and is expected to be among the fastest selling (and probably most expensive) outdoor items in its class currently being sold by this well known national firm. Yet your price during this publicity campaign is only $ 10 — and they will not be sold at this (or any other) price by the company in any store.

Step-Flow Foot Pump

Bellows-type foot pump inflates your boat to full size and buoyancy in minutes with only your foot. No hand-pumping necessary. Yours FREE if you mail your boat order before March 25.

SPECIAL BONUS

High-Speed "No-Loss" Oars

New Jet-Scoop high speed design takes less effort yd makes boat go much faster. Special "no loss" washers keep oars from falling out of boat. Full 45-inch length, yet weigh only II-V2 ounces each and pack away to just 18 inches for storage. Yours for only $2 per pair if you order before March 25. (R40830)

NOTE: There is a limit of two (2) per address at this price, but if your request is made early enough (before March 25) you may order up to 5. Each boat is covered by the com- pany's full one-year money-back guarantee.

TO ORDER: Mail your name and address and payment. Be sure to indicate your choice of REG U L A R 72-square-foot size for $10 (Item R40820) or LARGE 24-square-foot size for $17.95 (Item R40850). Add $5 shipping for each boat. (New York residents add sales tax.) Allow up to 6-8 weeks for shipment. Make check payable to RBM Ltd. Mail to: RBM Boat Offer, Dept. 570-154, Box 1086, Hicksville, N.Y. 11855. (R44040)

We don't mind losing money, if we can get yon to try us.

Here's why. International Coins & Currency, Inc. of Montpelier, Ver- mont is confident that once you try us, you'll decide to use our rare coin services again and again. That's why we're willing to risk losing money with this "get acquainted" offer.

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.ere's the offer. For the next 7 days, or as long as supplies last, we'll sell new customers guaranteed Very Fine Morgan silver dollars in pre-1904 mixed dates for only $19.75 each in rolls of 20. Each coin is strictly graded VF according the of- ficial standards of the American Numismatic Association. Individual coins are available for $25 each, half-rolls of 10 for $225 (save $25), and rolls of 20 for $395 (save $105). Order #11952. Limit 3 rolls (60 coins) per customer.

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.ere's how to take us up on the offer. To order by credit card, call toll-free 1-800-451-4463 at any hour. Or send a check or money order to: International Coins & Cur- rency, Inc., 11 E. State St., Box 218, Dept. 405, Montpelier, VT 05602. Add $3.75 for postage and handling. 15-day money-back guarantee.

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ADVISER

Do you have questions about your veter- ans' benefits? The American Legion Magazine answers those questions in this column. We regret that we cannot personally answer each query. Write to The American Legion Magazine, Veterans Adviser Editor, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206.

Q. May a veteran name a minor child as the principal beneficiary of his NSLI policy?

A Yes. If the beneficiary is still a ■ minor at the time of the veteran's death, the VA will provide assistance in supervising the payment of proceeds.

Qa My grandfather was a patient in a VA nursing home. He recently passed away, and we are applying for burial benefits. Can we claim trans- portation expenses?

A Transportation costs of remains ■ are authorized when the veteran dies in a VA medical facility.

Q. My husband is a WWI veteran who is not eligible for VA pension benefits because of income stan- dards. Is he eligible for VA outpatient treatment?

A Yes. A WWI veteran may be pro- ■ vided VA outpatient treatment for any condition even though he is not receiving VA pension benefits.

Qa I receive service-connected disa- bility compensation based on a rating of 30 percent. I just got married. Can I receive additional funds for my

wife?

A Yes. Veterans whose service-con- ■ nected disabilities are rated at 30 percent or more are entitled to addi- tional allowances for dependents.

Qa I am enrolled in a vocational program in school and receive educa- tion benefits under the GI Bill. I have recently experienced problems in receiving my VA checks on the first of each month. Will my checks continue to be late every month?

BThe VA recently changed from ■ quarterly to monthly certification

for non-college-degree students. Under quarterly certification, students usually received checks on the first of each month. With the monthly format, veter- ans and eligible dependents will typi- cally receive their checks sometime between the 15th and 25th of each month, instead of at the beginning of the month.

Q- Is there a time limit on filing for reimbursement of the cost of a non- government headstone placed in a private cemetery?

A Yes. The claim must be filed within ■ two years of either the date of burial or the date of purchase of a pri- vately purchased headstone or marker.

Qa My husband was cremated, and his ashes were scattered without in- terment of any portion of the ashes. May I still obtain a memorial marker for him?

A Yes. The memorial may be erected ■ in a private cemetery or memorial section of a national cemetery.

Qa My spouse is retired from the armed forces and rated 100 percent by the VA for service-connected dis- abilities. Do I have the option of choosing Civilian Health and Medi- cal Program of the Uniformed Serv- ices (CHAMPUS) or Civilian Health and Medical Program of the VA (CHAMPVA) coverage?

A No. If your spouse retired from the a armed forces, you must apply for CHAMPUS.

Qa I am a veteran who would like to start a small business. How can I ob- tain a VA small-business loan?

A The VA does not have a small-busi- ■ ness-loan program. The Small Bus- iness Administration has programs to assist veterans in obtaining small-busi- ness loans. In each SBA field office there is a veterans-affairs officer to assist veterans. Check the U.S. govern- ment section of your local phone book for the address of the nearest SBA office. □

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AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE

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OUTFIT REUNIONS

Veterans alert

Guidelines — Outfit Reunion notices are published for Legionnaires only and must be submitted on official forms. To obtain forms, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: O R Form, The American Legion Magazine, P.O. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46206. Notices must be received at least seven months before reunions are scheduled and will be published only on a first-come, first-served basis.

Army

2nd Arm'd Div. (June-Camp Hill, PA) Lewis Bogart, Rt. 1, Box 208, Hughesville, PA 17737 (717) 584-3525

2nd Indian Head Div. (July-Columbus, OH) Ed Price, 4828 Winterset Dr., Columbus, OH 43220 (614) 459- 2950

3rd Bn.. 41st Arm'd Inf. Rgt., 2nd Arm'd Div., H Co.

(June-Nashville, TN) Clarence Crumpton, 412 Dunn's Mtn. Rd., Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 279-7880 3rd Chemical, 4.2 Mortar Bn. (July-Atlanta) Quentin Unger, 6016Torrey Pines Dr., Ocala. FL 32672 (904) 624-0937

5th Arm'd Div. Assn. (WWII) (Oct-W. Palm Beach, FL) Will Cook, 13344 Luthman Rd., Minster, OH 45865 (419) 628-4032

5th US Inf. Rgt. (July-Portland, ME) Paul Haney, 107 New

York Ave., So. Portland, ME 04106 (207) 774-0630 7th Cav. Rgt., Heavy Mtr. Co. (1949-50) (Sept-Nashville.

TN) Jack Couch, 5144 15th Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN

55417(612)822-6622 9th Med. Bn., 9th Inf. Div., C Co. (July-Redmond. WA)

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24th Inf. Rgt., 25th Div. (July-Columbia, SCJTaylor

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36th Station Hospital (NP) (England-WWII) (June- Houston) Paul Block, 3415ShadycrestDr., Pearland.TX

77581(713)485-1615 49th F.A. Bn., 7th Div. (WWII) (June-Kingston, OK) Marvin

Kimble, Box 444, Hydro, OK 73048 50th Trans. Med. Truck APO 719 (Okinawa, 1953-55)

(June-Little Rock, AR) Bobby Hopper, Box 575,

Springdale, AR 72765 (501 ) 756-3053 57th Field Hospital (July-Minneapolis) A D. Easley, 2221

Grant, Wichita, KS 67213 (316) 943-0541 69th Inf. Bde. (KS Nat'l Guard) (May-Topeka, KS) 69th

Brigade Reunion, Box C- 300, Topeka, KS 66601 74th CA AA (May-Ft. Monroe, VA) Fred Brooks, 2000

Wilhelm Ave., Baltimore, MD 21237 (301 ) 866-4215 82nd Engr. Combat Bn. (May-Myrtle Beach, SC) Frank

Ruppert Jr., Rt 1, Box 572, Berkeley Springs. WV 25411

(304) 258-5627 86th Chemical Mortar Co. (May-Orlando, FL) John

Deasy, 1830 30th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94122 (415)

566-2177

86th Ord. HM Tanks (Nov-Las Vegas, NV) R.B. Burns,

2159 Sequoia Dr., Hemet, CA 92343 (714) 652-3087 88th Inf. Div. (Sept-Cincinnati) C.W. Waters, Box 925,

Havertown. PA 19083 89th FA Bn. (Jan-Gainesville, FL) L.W. LeGrand, Box 422,

Bronson, FL 32621 (904) 486-4543 96th Inf. Div. (July-Peoria, IL) William Broschk, 17819 S.

Station Rd., Columbia-Station, OH 44028 (216) 236-

5141

103rd Combat Engrs. (June-Marietta, OH) Charles McFarland. Rt 1. Box 84, Marietta, OH 45750 (614) 373- 7508

106th Cav. (June-Champaign. IL) Fred Gourley, 1412 S.

Mattis, Champaign, IL 61821 (217)356-0491 114th Inf., 44th Div. (June-Sioux Falls. SD) Curtis Eggers.

Rt. 10. Box 74. Sioux Falls. SD 57101 (605) 332-0718 120th Station Hospital (July-Rochester, NY) William

LaManna, 123 Mailing Dr., Rochester, NY 14621 (716)

266-1387

121st Inf. Rgt., 8th Div. (Old Blue Bonnets) (May- Macon, GA) Jim McClendon. 5060 Pine Ridge Dr., Macon. GA 31210 (912) 447-4206

124th Inf. Rgt., 31 st Inf. Div., C Co. (May-Clarksville, IN) William Leep, 322 Dieterlen Rd.. Henryville, IN 47126 (812) 294-1626

128th Asslt. Hel. Co. (Phu Loi, S.Vietnam) (June- Oklahoma City) Carl Kimbrough, 900 Stansell Dr., Mid- west City, OK 73110 (405) 732-7148

136th Inf., 33rd Div., A Co. (May-Ft. Wayne. IN) Lyle Powers, 202 S. 7th St., Brighton, Ml 48116 (313) 229- 2149

145th Mtr. Vehicle Assembly Co. (CBI) (June- Pittsburgh) Vladimer Homa, 18 Run St.. Carnegie. PA 15106(412)276-2076

151st Inf., 38th Div., H Co. (WWII) (June-Wabash. IN) Verhn Haupt. Box 611, Wabash, IN 46992 (219) 563-3411

151st Inf., D. Co. (June-Indianapolis) James Stone, Rt. 2, Box 223, Bloomfield, IN 47424 (812) 863-7337

151st Inf., E Co. (June-Darlington, IN) Donald Weliever, Rt. 1. Darlington, IN 47940 (317) 794-4525

152nd Inf., Anti-Tank Co. (June-Portland. IN) Lloyd McGough, Rt. 1, Geneva, IN 46740 (219) 368-7354

156th Inf., 31 st Div. (WWII) (May-Lake Charles, LA) Evan Janise, Rt. 1. Box 300, Ragley, LA 70657 (318) 855-7314

166th Station Hospital (WWII) (May-St. Louis) Horace Zeigler, 17603 Hood Rd., Livingston, LA 70754 (504) 698-6496

172nd Combat Engrs. AVN (May-Pigeon Forge, TN) W.N Williams, Rt. 2, Box 145, Kingston, TN 37763 (615) 376-7214

179th Inf., 45th Div., D Co. ((WWII-Korea)) (Aug-Norman,

OK) L.R. Wall, 8508 S. Ross, Oklahoma City, OK 73159

(405) 681-5945 204th AAA AW Bn. (July-Canton. OH) William Prokopchak,

312 Main St., Lyndora, PA 16045 (412) 283-5727 208th CA AA Vets (June-Middlebury, CT) Harry MacNeil

Jr., 26 Mountain Rd . Tornngton. CT 06790 (203) 489-

8882

210th Gen. Hospital (July-Boiling Springs, PA) Lowell Dean, 185 Central Ave. , Westerville, OH 43081 (614) 882-3307

220th F.A. Bn., 44th Div., C Btry. (Sept-Bryant, IN) Gene Reverman, 270 Ihle Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45238 (513) 471 - 9302

246th Signal Oper. Co. (WWII) (Aug-Chattanooga, TN) Johnnie Huggins Jr., 30031 S.W. 169th Ave., Home- stead, FL 33030 (305) 247-0150

255th F.A. Bn. (Sept-Florence, KY) Marvin George, 1172 Garber PI., San Jose, CA 95127 (408) 251 -5062

264th F.A. Bn. (June-Florence, KY) Lawrence Gresham. 804 Anaconda Ave., Charleston, WV 25302 (304) 342- 5067

288th F.A. Observ. Bn. (June-Nashville, TN) Sam Cook, 106 Nolan Cir., Marietta, OH 45740 (614) 373-1326

289th Sig. Co., 4th E.S.B. (July-Ripley, NY) John Stoneburg, 1900 Lanewood Ln,, Plymouth, MN 55441 (612) 473-4567

300th Combat Engr. Bn. (June-Dallas, TX) Willie Hein.

Rt. 1, Box 74, Wallis.TX 77485 (409) 478-6320 311th F.A. Bn., 79th Div., A Btry. (WWII) (June-McMinn-

ville, TN) M.B. Hillis, Rt. 9, Box 7, McMinnville, TN 37110

(615) 668-8787 312th F.A. Bn., 79th Inf. (WWII) (Apr-Pawleys Island, SC)

James Chandler, 430 Highmarket St., Box 533, George- town, SC 29442 (803) 546-6541 334th Ord. Dep. Co. (May-Fayetteville, NC) Wallace

Johnson, Rt. 1, Box 199, Autryville, NC 28318 (919) 567-

2506

337/1 338th Engrs. (Africa/Italy) (Aug-Niles, OH) August

Lombardi, 132 Chestnut St. N.E., Warren, OH 44483

(216) 394-9813 340th Combat Engrs. (Sept-Duluth, MN) Otto Gault,

3307 Piedmount Ave., Duluth, MN 55811 (218) 727-4222 346th Engr. Rgt. (July-Marietta, OH) Robert Beckett, 125

Sprague Dr., Hebron, OH 43025 (614) 928-0591 401 st AAA Bn., C Btry. (June-Montevideo, MN) Robert

Bergo. Rt. 1, Box 38, Montevideo, MN 56265 (612) 269-

8732

410th AAA Bn., D Btry. (WWII) (Aug-Rockton. PA) John

Conway, Box 56, Rockton, PA 15856 (814) 583-5477 410th Inf. D Co. (Sept-Mt. Pleasant, IA) Virgil Morris, Rt.4,

Box 21, Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641 (319) 986-6848 444th Signal Bn., B Co. (June-Pittsburgh) Harry Smith,

57 Pacemaker Plz., Toronto, OH 43964 (614) 537-2121 455th Ord. Evac. Co. (WWII) (June-New York City) John

DiGiorgio, 318 Stoodley PL, Schenectady, NY 12303

(518) 355-3902 456th AAA AW Bn. (June-Charlottesville, VA) John

Hendrickson, 3907 Mill Creek Dr., Annandale, VA22003 467th AAA AW Bn., B Btry. (May-St. Louis) Ralph

Steinhoff, 4906 Howard St.. Skokie, IL 60077 (312) 675-

5327

475th AAA AW Bn. (June-Bloomsburg, PA) Lynwood O'Brecht, 2620 Tower Rd., Bloomsburg, PA 17815 (717) 784-0786

482nd AAA AW Bn. (sp), C Btry. (Sept-Omaha, NE)

Charles Sklenar, 1427 S. 167th St.. Omaha, NE 68130

(402) 330-0237 503rd Parachute Rgt. Combat Team (July-San Antonio,

TX) George Aubry Jr., 115 Forrest Tr, Universal City, TX

78148(512)658-4179 537th Engr. LP Co. (Oct-Mesa, AZ) Richard Dozer, 4107

E. FairviewCir., Mesa, AZ 85204 (602)830-5074 537th/551st Engr. Co. (topo) (1964-67) (May-Wilmington,

NC) Glen Nyhus, 139 Elisha Dr., Wilmington, NC 28405

(919) 799-0413 544th Ord. HM Co. FA (WWII) (Aug-Frankenmuth, Ml)

Harry Spender, 5978 W. Millington Rd., Millington, Ml

48746(517)871-3677 545th Ord. HM Co. (July-Greenville, SC) A.L. Suddeth. 37

Wallace St., Greenville, SC 29605 (803) 232-7024 561st F.A. Bn. (May-Boulder, CO) Richard Zwisler, 2810

Heidelberg Dr.. Boulder, CO 80303 (303) 494-6284 593rd Engr. Boat & Shore Rgt., HQ, HQ Co., A.B. Cos.,

Medics (WWII) (Sept- Monterey, CA) John McGrath.

3502 Fern Lea Rd., Shively, KY 40216 (502) 448-3118 607th QM Grave Registration Co. (WWII) (May-Collins-

ville, IL) John Little, Box 63, Kingston, AR 72742 (501 )

665-2602

614th Ord. Ammo Co. (May-Lancaster, PA) Robert Eby, 543 E. Roseville Rd., Lancaster, PA 17601

630th Tank Destroyer Bn. (July-Savannah, GA) Edgar Waller, 97 Azalea Ave., Garden City, GA 31408 (912) 964- 5371

631st Tank Destroyer Bn. (Aug-Mt. Horeb, Wl) William Wittwer, 314 E. Main St., Mt. Horeb, Wl 53572 (608) 437- 3618

632nd T.D. Bn., A Co. (May-Cape May, NJ) Anthony Kubiak, 215 Grant St., Cape May, NJ 08204 (609) 884- 7894

644th Tank Destroyer Bn. (WWII) (May-Kissimmee, FL)

Frank Arieta. 114W. Catawissa St.. Nesquehoning. PA

18240(717) 669-9341 692nd F.A. Bn., B Btry. & HQ (Sept-Davenport. IA) Vern

Thede, 2416 E. Pleasant St.. Davenport, IA 52800 (319)

359-0170

692nd T.D. Bn., A Co. (May-Williamsburg, VA) Joe Kolenda, 17 Opal Dr., Dearborn, Ml 48126 (313) 846- 6197

693rd Port Co. T.C. (June-King of Prussia, PA) James Beerer, 1002 Stonybrook Dr., Norristown, PA 19403 (215) 539-1285

711th ABN Ord. Maint. Co./Bn (Aug-Ft. Campbell. KY)

James Hembree, 130 Brandywine Dr., Clarksville, TN

37042(615)552-7761 727th Amph. Tractor Bn. (July-Canton, OH) Merritt

Corbin, 132 Cohan Rd., Wooster, OH 44691 (216) 264-

1740

748th Engr. Base Equip. Co. (June-St Louis) James Martin Jr., 5945 Fenwood Dr.. Zachery, LA 70791 (504) 654-9451

749th Railroad Bn. Vets (July-Valley Forge, PA) Donald Gothard. 4173 Dixie Ct., Columbus, OH 43228 (614) 279-3026

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776th Tank Destroyer Bn. (July-Minot, ND) Melvin Heere, 1816 S.W. 11th, Minot, ND 58701 (701 ) 838-2551

782nd Tank Bn. (WWII) (June-Pine Bluff, AR) William Coker, 4401 Union Ave., Pine Bluff, AR 71603 (501) 879- 2660

785th MP Bn., B Co. (June-Louisville, KY) Elzie Jenkins,

5310 Dahl Rd., Louisville, KY 40213 (502) 969-1931 798th MP Bn. (WWII) (May) Aaron Pyles, 108 Southside

Dr., Campbellsville, KY 42718 (502) 465-7469 865th AVN Engr. Bn. C Co. (June-New Orleans) Wilbur

Smith, 443 S. Church St., Virden, IL 62690 (217) 965-

3693

904th F. A. Bn., 79th Inf. Div. (July-San Antonio, TX) Sotero Gomez, 2515 Jackson Dr., Gatesville, TX 76528 (817) 865-7121

961 St F. A. Bn. (May-Nashville, TN) Melvin Coffin, Rt 2,

Box 200, Waukomis, OK 73773 (405) 758-3552 970th QM Serv. Co. (May-Ponca City, OK) Allen Nations,

Rt. 3, Box 374, Versailles, MO 65084 (314) 378-5819 974th Signal Serv. Co. (May-Nashville, TN) Dean Ussery,

202 Magnolia Dr., Quinby, SC 29501 (803) 662-1047 974th, 975th F.A. Bns. (WWII) (May-Winthrop, MN) Les

Weber, Box 495, Winthrop, MN 55396 (507) 647-5756 1000th Engr.Tdwy. Bridge Co. (Sept-Las Vegas, NV)

Louis Feraco, 502 Schoolhouse Ln., Willow Grove, PA

19090 (215) 657-2674 1012th Treadway Bridge Co. (Oct-Chicago) Jack Nix,

4853 N. Newland Ave., Chicago, IL 60656 (312) 631-

9014

1906th AVN Engrs., H&S, A,B,C,D Cos. (July-Grand

Island, NE) Oliver Simonson, Rt. 1, Box 75, St. Libory,

NE 68872 (308) 687-6280 3207th QM Serv. Co. (WWII) (Aug-Kansas City, MO)

Charles Jokerst, 501 Taylor Ave., Crystal City, MO 63019

(314) 937-2095 Americal Div. (June-Carlisle, PA) Bernard Chase, 82

Phyllis Dr., So. Yarmouth, MA 02664 (617) 394-1943 Dustoff Assn. (Feb-San Antonio, TX) Dustoff Assn., Box

8091, Wainwright Sta., San Antonio, TX 78208 (512) 659-

4237

Ft. Richardson Military Personnel (1941-45) (Oct-St.

Louis) Adrian Ingersoll, 244 Ohio Ave., East Alton, IL

62024 (618) 254-4665 H-87th, 10th Inf. Div. (June-Minneapolis) Glenn Krause,

7436 Dupont Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN 55423 (612)

866-9490

Manchu Assn., 9th Inf. Rgt. (WWII) (July-Columbus,

OH) RayTarabusi, 19 Waterford Dr., Englewood, FL

34223(813)475-6063 Persian Gulf Command Vets (June-Dayton, OH) Keith

Dawson, 121 W. Main St., Box 254, Gettysburg, OH

45328 (513) 447-8243 QM, Ord. Transportation Corp. (Panama Canal Zone-

WWII) (June-Pittsburgh) Bernard Midler, 3303 Harding

Ave., E. Liverpool, OH 43920 (216) 385-0491 Retired Army Nurse Corps Assn. (May-Seattle) Margaret

Ewen, c/o RANCA, Box 39235, Serna Sta. , San Antonio,

TX 78218(512) 824-0329 San Francisco Port of Embarkation V-Mail Sta. (June-

Tulsa, OK) Max Doty, 5255 S. Irvington PI., Tulsa, OK

74135 (918) 622-5384 US Army Armed Guard (1941-42) (Aug) Raymond Didur

Sr., Box 282, Cement City, Ml 49233 (517) 592-6941 US Army Med. Command (Camp Zama, Japan) (June- Denver) John Smith, 14965 E. Security PI., Aurora, CO

80011 (303) 344-1403 US Disciplinary & Branches (June-Leavenworth, KS)

M.E. Merritt, 104 E. Mary, Lansing, KS 66043 (913) 727-

1713

Women's Army Corps Foundation (May-Ft. McClellan, AL) Women's Army Corps Foundation, Box 5339, Ft. McClellan, AL 36205 (205) 238-3512

XXI Corps, US Chapter (Rhin & Danube-WWII) (June- Paris, France) Don Seedborg, 1915 Cedar Ave., Long Beach, CA 90806 (213) 591 -4075

Navy

50th NCB (WWII) (Sept) Robert Leathers, 116 Krest,

Madera, CA 93637 (209) 661 - 7128 101st NCB (May-Omaha, NE) Calvin Belt, 4801 Stratford

Rd., Evansville, IN 47710 (812) 422-1983 302nd NCB (July-Fremont, OH) Paul Russell, 831

Whittlesey St., Fremont, OH 43420 Acorn 30 (WWII) (June-Cincinnati) Francis Hoh, 881

Grays Ln., New Richmond, OH 45157 (513) 553-2417 ANTS-WAVES Lake Union (Seattle, 1942-45) (May- Welch's, OR) Dorothy Burch, 74432 Angels Camp Rd.,

Palm Desert, CA 92260 (619) 568-3195 CASU 20 (1943-45) (June-Milwaukee, Wl) R D. Ritten-

house, 1126 Elmore Dr., Borger, TX 79007 (806) 274-

4694

GRO-PAC 8 (Saipan) (June-Nashville, TN) Charles Slezak, 3832 Euclid, Berwyn, IL 60402 (312) 484-3618 Please turn to page 72

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eases or disabilities as a result of the exposure," Comer said.

Two other CDC studies, the Experi- ence Study and the Selected Cancers Study, are continuing without interrup- tion. The Experience Study is inves- tigating the long-term health effects of military service in Vietnam. Informa- tion is being gathered from Vietnam veterans and from those who served during the same years in other coun- tries. The results are expected to be released in September 1988.

The Selected Cancers Study is a case-control study to determine the incidence of lymphoma, soft-tissue sarcoma, nasal and nasopharyngeal cancer, and primary liver cancer. Be- cause of the infrequency of these dis- eases, the CDC is studying two groups of people, each comprised of veterans and non-veterans whose dates of birth indicate that they could have served in Vietnam. Results of the study, which is scheduled to continue through 1989, may indicate significant differences in risk factors, especially for those who served in Vietnam.

Key Positions Filled On National Staff

SOMMER HOVISH

/OHN F. Sommer Jr. and Joseph J. Hovish have been appointed to key positions on The Ameri- can Legion national staff. Som- mer became director of the VA & R Divi- sion upon the retirement of Robert E. Lyngh last month. Hovish took over as national librarian when Thomas V. Hull retired in October.

Sommer was deputy director of the Washington-based division since 1982. He joined the national staff in 1974, after serving three years as director of Rehabilitation and Services for the Department of Ohio.

Hovish comes to the Legion from Utica, N.Y. , where he was assistant director of the public library.

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tion With A Future" drive, the number and size of future CWF grants can be expected to increase. At press time, more than $50,000 already had been collected for the foundation.

"Much of the credit for the fantastic early start belongs to the Regional Action Teams," Comer said. About 50 Legionnaires and members of the Aux- iliary and of Eight and Forty are mem- bers of RATs, one team for each of the eight regions. "Since RATs were estab- lished three years ago. contributions to the foundation have tripled. Before the RATs, we averaged $300 a week in contributions; now the weekly average is $1,000."

Donors who give $25 will receive a CWF lapel pin, and those who donate $50 or more also will have their names published in The American Legion Magazine.

Donations should be mailed to the Child Welfare Foundation. RO. Box 1055, Indianapolis. IN 46206. An en- velope for contributions has been pro- vided.

"Let's each give what we can," Comer said, "so that America's chil- dren for generations to come can fondly turn toThe American Legion and say, 'Thanks a million.' " □

Better Times Refunds Due

DURING 1985, a number of Legionnaires and American Legion Auxiliary members sub- scribed to Better Times magazine. Litigation followed when Better Times failed to continue to publish. Now the Legion has obtained a $9 partial refund of the subscription price for the benefit of each sub- scriber. The lawsuit is continuing in an attempt to recover the balance.

People who have corresponded with the National Judge Advocate on this matter should have received a letter about their refunds. If no letter was received or no claim has yet been filed, subscribers should write to: National Judge Advocate, The American Legion, RO. Box 1055, Indianapolis, IN 46205. Please enclose a copy of the canceled check (front and back) and a copy of any other correspondence or documenta- tion of the subscription.

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FAMOUS NATIONALLY ADVERTISED

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Why Are We Offering These Famous Nationally Advertised ' SWIFT 660/F ™ Telescoping Spin Rods for only^^?

As part of its Anniversary Publicity Campaign, a leading New York firm will distribute one million (1,000,000) of its most expensive spin rods — the Famous Nationally Advertised™ SWIFT-660/F" Telescoping WhisperCast™ WhamRod™ — for the astonishing "Anniversary Price" of only $5 each to the first one million persons who write to the company address (below) before midnight, March 27, 1988.

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These are the same famous SWIFT-660/F Telescoping WhisperCast WhamRods nationally advertised in leading media. A full standard 66 inches from base to tip, they spring to complete length in an eye-blinking 6/10ths of a second!. ..then telescope down to a mere 16 inches for easy storage in kit bag, glove compartment or attache case.

Crafted of aluminum, stainless steel and space-age fiberglass for extra strength and flexibility, they provide full response along the entire length of the rod, without "flat spots". And allow precise placement of small flies with a minimum of surface displacement.

Weighing a featherlight 3.75 ounces, they are the perfect ultralight rods for today's "compleat angler". Designed for casting powerfully over long distances, they're at home on virtually every lake, stream or waterway in America, and ideal for land-casting, general wading, and boat-fishing. Small wonder they are the fastest selling (and most expensive) spin rods ever offered by this giant multi-million-dollar New York firm.

Each rod is covered by the company's full one-year money-back guarantee. There is a limit of two (2) rods per address at this price. But if your order is mailed early enough (before March 19) you may request up to five. These Famous Nationally Advertised SWIFT-660/F Telescoping WhisperCast WhamRods will not be sold at this price by the company in any store.

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1 . PRICE BREAK! Only a few years ago we were selling our five Morgan Silver Dollar Sets for $250. 00 per set — so you save twice as much!

2. MOST SOUGHT AFTER COINS— Considered by ex- perts to be the peak of the engraver s art, Morgan solid silver dollars of 412.5 grains of ninety percent fine silver. .77344 oz. pure silver, are the most sought after coins ever minted in the Gnited States.

3. NO LONGER IN CIRCULATION— Dated from 1878 to 1921. these coins have become so popular that collectors and investors have been hoarding them for years. As a result, along with the fact that millions of these coins have been melted down for their silver content, there are no longer any Morgan Silver Dollars in circulation.

4. A MONEY SAVING OFFER! Now, due to a special pur- chase of these historic coins, we are able to make them available to you in this money saving offer. However, due to market fluctuations, we can guarantee this offer for the next 2 weeks only!'

5. INCREASED VALUE OVER LAST 10 YEARS— Silver Dollar coins in general have increased in value over ten times in the last ten years. Some Morgan Silver Dollars sell for as much as $20,000 and one in prime mint condition recently sold for $42,500. , 1937 The numismatic Gum

6. BEAUTIFULLY DISPLAYED— Each Collectors Set as- sembled by The Numismatic Guild is mounted in a hand- some lucite presentation case accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

7. MAKES AN IDEAL GIFT— The gleaming silver dollars of the Collector's Set make an ideal gift for any special occa- sion and can be handed down through the generations.

8. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE— If you are not satis- fied for any reason, you may return your coins within 1 5 days for a full refund. The Numismatic Guild, dealers in rare gold and silver coins since 1947, is a member in good standing of the S.P.N., the Retail Coin Dealers Association and the I.N.S. We guarantee all our coins to be original United States Mint issue in fine condition containing appropriate sig- natures, dates and mint marks.

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construed "to abolish religion al- together" or that it would "patronize those who professed no religion at all." Here is the record:

"Mr. Madison said he apprehended the meaning of the words to be that Congress should not establish a reli- gion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience.

"Mr. Madison thought if the word national was inserted before religion, it would satisfy the minds of honorable gentlemen. He believed that the people feared one or two sects combined to- gether might obtain a pre-eminence and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform. He thought if the word national was introduced, it would point the amendment directly to the object it was intended to prevent."

This is only a sample of the volumi- nous evidence showing the authentic meaning of the establishment clause, which had nothing to do with banning prayer or religious observance at the federal level, much less in the schools or other institutions of the states. The overwhelming conclusion from such data — and countless others that might be cited — is that the current reading of the First Amendment is an intellectual deception, standing the Constitution on its head. □

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Taps Notices mention, whenever possible, those Legionnaires who have held high national or department office in the Legion or the U.S. government, or who have attained other forms of national prominence.

Robert George Blair, AK National Executive Committee- man (1976- ), Alternate National Executive Committee- man (1972-76), Department Commander (1971-72), Department Vice Commander (62-64; 69-71 ).

Russell E. Boston, MO Department Vice Commander (1971-72).

Elbert L. Dodds, FR Department Commander (1937-38).

Andres J. du Bouchet Jr., Mexico National Executive Committeeman (1952-57), Alternate National Executive Committeeman (1950-52), Department Commander (1949-50), Department Vice Commander (1948-49).

Thomas J. Evans, MS Department Vice Commander (1966-67).

Frank Navarro Larrauri, PR Department Commander (1964-65), Department Vice Commander (1955-56).

Hon. Ray J. Madden, St. Louis Caucus, A.L. Founders Society

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Anthony L. Ulchar Sr., FL National Executive Com- mitteeman (1982-86). Alternate National Executive Committeeman (1980-82), Department Commander (1976-77), Department Vice Commander (1974-75),

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According to Sell and State Depart- ment interpreter Ross Lavroff, Medvid kept winking at the Americans as he talked. To Lavroff, it seemed that the Ukrainian was trying to signal that all his talk was "just a game," and that in the presence of the Soviet officials, Medvid "could not say what he really wanted to say."

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"Wear and Sullivan were jubilant," said the CSCE account, "believing that Customs would now detain the Konev until Medvid was produced. They were as yet unaware of decisions in Washington to refrain from enforce- ment actions regarding the subpoena."

On Nov. 9, as Coast Guard vessels turned away a small boat carrying signs saying "STOP" (for "Save the Op- pressed People"), the Marshal Konev departed for the Soviet Union with a cargo of American grain and a Ukrainian seaman named Miroslav Medvid.

The CSCE found no evidence of high-level U.S. -Soviet collusion in the case, as some rumors had alleged. Nor was there any evidence that the Soviets had switched Medvid for an impostor after the seaman's forcible return to his ship. But the commission's inves- tigators concluded that "White House, National Security and Justice Depart- ment officials deviated from constitu- tionally and congressionally mandated procedures," adding that "this fail- ure.. . constitutes a violation of law." It determined that State Department offi- cers had "acted outside their jurisdic- tion" in taking over the case from the Justice Department, which, under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, has "the main responsibility for immigration and specifically for asylum matters."

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In reviewing other problems involv- ing Soviet and Soviet-bloc defectors in recent years, the CSCE cited only one case as egregious as Medvid's. It in- volved the attempted defection of a Lithuanian seaman, Simas Kudirka, on Nov. 23, 1970. While his Soviet fishing trawler was moored alongside the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant off Martha's Vine- yard to discuss trawling limits, Kudirka leaped aboard the American vessel and requested asylum. After a series of often-incoherent radio and telephone conversations with Coast Guard head- quarters and the State Department's Soviet desk in Washington , Soviet crew- men were allowed to board the Vigilant, where they bound, gagged and beat Kudirka before dragging him back aboard the Russian trawler — all while the Americans looked on.

Back in the Soviet Union, Kudirka served a four-year prison sentence for "treason," after which Soviet au- thorities, responding to appeals from the West, allowed him to emigrate to the United States with his family.

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USS Amsterdam CL 101 (May-St. Petersburg Beach, FL)

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Beach, FL 33706 (813) 367-4807 USS Arenac APA 128 (May-Chicago) W. Carey Johnson,

Box 291, Lawton, OK 73502 (405) 355-8414 USS Arkansas BB 33 (May-Little Rock, AR) Joseph

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3024

USS Bache DD 470 (May-St. Louis) Kit Hall, 148 Buddie Ave., St Louis, MO 63135 (314)521-9414

USS Bataan CVL 29, All Air Grps. (Korea-WWH) (May- Philadelphia) Gerard Murphy. 3987 Buxmont Rd Hunt- ingdon Valley, PA 19006 (215) 947-8179

USS Belle Grove LSD 2, Ashland LSD 1 (July-Nashville, TN) Del Catron, 14732 Van Buren St.. Midway City, CA 92655(714) 897-1787

USS Benner DD 807 (July-Annapolis, MD) Jim Parsons, 2002 General Hwy., Annapolis, MD 21401 (301) 721- 3464

USS Bernadou, Cole. Dallas, Ellis, DuPont (May- Colorado Springs, CO) Harry Hughes, 18 Lansdowne Ln., Carmel, IN 46032 (317) 844-6793

USS Biloxi CL 80 (Apr-Nashville, TN) R.W. Ricker, 102 Baltusrol Rd., Franklin, TN 37064 (615) 646-4400

USS Biscayne ((WWII)) (June-St. Louis) Richard Gould, 9400 Harden Dr., St. Louis, MO 63047 (314) 867-9169

USS Buckley DE 51 (July-Chicago) James O'Keele, 35463 N. Sheridan Dr., Ingleside, IL 60041 (312) 587- 8481

USS Callaghan DD 792 (July-Muskegon, Ml) Frank Dunne, 384-D Woodbndge Dr., Ridge, NY 11961 (516) 821-0724

USS Chicago CA 29/136, CG 11 (Original-Marines Included) (May-Long Beach, CA) M.E. Kramer, 41 Homestead Dr., Youngstown, OH 44512 (216) 788-4842

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USS Chikaskia AO 54 (May-Seattle) Richard Batdorf, 111 Forget-Me-Not Rd , Wildwoodcrest, NJ 08260 (609) 522-1926

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Box 100, Montezuma, IA 50171 (515)623-5116 USS Cowell DD 547 (May-Las Vegas, NV) Jacob Jacobs,

1633 S. 48th, Lincoln, NE 68506 (402) 489-7350 USS Currituck AV 7 (Sept-Norfolk, VA) Ronald Curtis,

2954 Hilleman Ave., St. Louis, MO 63114 (314) 427-6140 USS Davis DD 395 (May- Las Vegas, NV) Joe Caron,

26027 Queen Palm Dr., Homeland, CA 92348 (714) 926-

2964

USS Davison DD 618 (July-Stevens Point, Wl) Bob Adamski, 2240 Jefferson St., Stevens Point, Wl 54481 (715) 344-3838

USS Dennis J. Buckley DD 808 (Apr-Charleston, SC) Charles Black, Box 1301, Little Rock. AR 72203 (501 )

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USS Earl K. Olsen DE 765 (Sept-St. Louis) Len Banning,

156 KihadeTrl., Medford Lakes, NJ 08055 USS Electra AKA 4 (Sept-Las Vegas, NV) W.E. Marders,

13931 Deviar Dr., Centerville, VA22020 (703) 830-8191 USS Fullam DD 474 (Oct-Baton Rouge, LA) Garrett

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924-7654

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391-1710

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Rohrer Hts. Dr., Osawatomie, KS 66064 (913) 755-4763 USS LST 691 (May-Norfolk, VA) William Anderson, Box

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Perrysburg, OH 43551 (419) 874-7456 USS Luce DD-522 (WWII) (May-Baton Rouge, LA)

Richard Flaum, 2042 E. 63rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11234

(718) 444-3922 USS Melvin DD 680 (July-Wilmington, NC) Henry Rosypal,

316 E. Vine St., Millville, NJ 08332 (609) 825-0280 USS Metivier DE 582 (May-Boston) Dick MacDonald,

Box 582, Maiden, MA 02148 (617) 665-2140 USS Morrison DD 560 (May-Baton Rouge, LA) John

Schurmeier Jr., 8291 Grange Blvd. So., Cottage Grove,

MN 55016 (612) 459-4823 USS New Jersey BB 62 (Oct-New Orleans, LA) Russell

Brown, 1414 S. Western Ave., Champaign, IL 61821 (217)

356-6253

USS Norris DD 859, Pre-Commission Radar Gang

(June-Coal Valley, IL) Norman Curtis, 136 E. 5th St.,

Coal Valley, IL 61240 (309) 799-3426 USS Oakland CL 95 (Aug-Toledo, OH) Gene Paul, Box

383, Sylvania, OH 43560 (419) 882-3413 USS Panamint AGC 13 (Oct-Hoboken, NJ) Edward

Fitzgerald, 11 Anderson St., Boston, MA 02114 (617) 523-

5881

USS PC 470 (June-Berrien Springs, Ml) James Zink, 4305 Berwick Ave., Toledo, OH 43612 (419) 478-8632

USS PC 793 (June-Las Vegas, NV) Joe Wilkinson, 461 Lawrence Switch Rd., Rt. 4, Jackson, TN 38305 (901 ) 422-5795

USS Portland CA 33 (May-Norfolk, VA) Herb Gibson, P.O.

Box 515191, Dallas, TX 75251 (214)341-7152 USS Quincy CA 39 (1936-42) (May-Nashville, TN) Clif

Perry, 4305 N. Drake PI., Tucson, AZ 85749 (602) 749-

3806

USS Rinehart DE 196 (June-Atlantic City, NJ) Richard Colucci, 2097 Montgomery St., Rahway, NJ 07065 (201 ) 381-6728

USS Shaw DD 373 (May-Chicago) John DeFields, 342 W.

Maple St., Coloma, Ml 49038 (616) 468-5605 USS Shea DM 30 (May-Charleston, SC) John Fernandez,

4201 Oakridge Dr., Charleston Hts., SC 29418 USS Sproston DD 577 (WWII) (May-Houston) George

Ress, 35 Briarwood Dr., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 USSTiconderoga CV/CVA/CVS/CG 47 (May-Tampa, FL)

Onofrio Biviano, 2830 N.E. 22nd Ave., Lighthouse Point,

FL 33064

USS Towner AKA 77 (Aug-Cambridge, MD) William Deissher Jr., Box 622, Cambridge, MD 21613 (301) 228- 0584

USS Trenton CL 11 (May-Milford, IA) F.L. Morton, Rt. 3,

Milford, IA 51351 (712)332-7292 USS Umpqua ATA 209 (July-Westminster, MD) Gerald

Bitzel, 101 N. Court St., Westminster, MD 21157 (301)

848-6318

USS VanValkenburgh DD 656 (Fall-Daytona Beach, FL) Gilbert Titus, 111 Hancock Dr., Wildwood, FL 32785 (904) 748-2831

USS Wadleigh DD 689 (June-Downington, PA) John Reilly, Box 487, Media, PA 19063 (215) 459-0694

USS William D. Porter DD 579 (June-Norfolk, VA) William Glover, 6710 Merleing Loop, Floral City, FL 32636 (904) 344-8792

USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN 624 (Commissioning

Crew) (Sept-Charleston, SC) Bob Bailey, Box 90563,

Hanahan, SC 29406 (803) 554-9236 USS Zane DMS 14/DD 337 (May-Tampa, FL) Colie

Gruber, 5115 Gateway Dr., Tampa, FL 33615 (813) 884-

4019

VB 106 (Fall-San Francisco) Gordon Ebbe, 2211 Wynoop Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80909 (303) 596-3087

VMTB 242 (WWII) (Feb-St. Petersburg, FL) Ernest Linsmaier, 2242 Anthram Ave., Alliance, OH 44601 (216) 821 -7516

VP 52-72 (WWII) (May-Las Vegas, NV) N.K. Little Jr., 2435 Pleasant Hill Rd., Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 (415) 935- 3139

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4th Air Depot Grp. (Sept-LeSourdsville, OH) James Purt,

1620 E. Central, Miamisburg, OH 45342 (513) 866-5314 50th Comm Sq. (1955-58) (Apr-Grandview, MO) Robert

Johnson, Box 4, Garrison, MN 56450 (612) 692-4463 90th Bomb Grp. Jolly Rogers (Western Mini-WWII)

(Apr-Long Beach, CA) Harold Wright, 2808 Fidler Ave..

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Eugene Orlandi, 311 3rd St., E. Northport, NY 11731

(516) 368-9193 401st Bomb Grp. (Sept-Dearborn, Ml) Ralph Trout, Box

22044, Tampa, FL 33622 (813) 884-6081 406th Ftr. Grp., 9th A.F. (WWII) (June-Dayton, OH) Bud

Pieracini, 1821 Imperial Ln., Findlay, OH 45840 (419)

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448th Bomb Grp. Assn. (Oct-Harlingen, TX) Leroy Engdahl. 1785 Wexford Dr., Vidor. TX 77662 (409) 769- 4872

451st Bomb Grp. (H) (Italy) (Oct-Norfolk. VA) Robert

Karstensen Sr., 1032 S. State St., Marengo, IL 60152

(815) 568-7766 820th Bomb Sq., 41st Bomb Grp., 7th AF (May-

Williamsburg, VA) William Childs, 3637 Patsy Ann Dr.,

Richmond, VA 23234 (804) 275-6012 830th MP Sq. (Selrldge Field, 1942-43) (June-Peoria

Hts., IL) JakeTennant, 814 E. Hines Ave., Peoria, Hts, IL

61614(309)688-3869 880th AC&W Sq. (Mallorca, Spain) (July-Bellefontaine,

OH) R.C. Bogardus, 601 Parkwood Dr., Bellefontaine,

OH 43311 (513)592-4563 901st Engr. 8th AF, HQ Co. (July-Memphis, TN) John

Graf, 958 Rustling Oaks Cir., Memphis. TN 38117 925th Engr. AVN Rgt. ((WWII)) (May-Orlando, FL) Billy

Taylor, Box 106A, Beck Bldg., 400 Travis St.. Shreveport,

LA 71101 (318)865-1017 2004th Ord., M Co. A.F. (May)Tom McDans, Rt. 2, Box 45,

Lincoln, NE 68520 (816) 547-2618 3530th Maint. Sq. (Bryan AFB, TX) (June-Oklahoma

City) V. Dean Russell, Rt. 1, Box 125B, Tuttle, OK 73089

(405) 387-3542 6207th AC&W Sq. (May-Indianapolis) Tom Featheringill,

1753 Shorter Dr., Indianapolis, IN 46214 (317) 271 -4828 Nagoya/Komaki Air Base, Japan (May-Nashville, TN)

Art Haley, Box 181, St. Bethlehem. TN 37155 (615) 645-

4972

Pilot Trng. Class 55V (Hondo/Reese AFB) (July-Day- ton, OH) R.H Barnes, 35 Golden, 22A, Battle Creek, Ml 49015(616)962-9602

R. A.F. (Croughton, Eng.) (June-Osceola. Wl) Richard Kao, 3777 S. 15th PI., Milwaukee, Wl 53221

S.W. Air Dlst., March Field (Jan-July, 1941) (May- Oklahoma City) Brian Cooper. 431 Lee's Trace, Marietta, GA 30064 (404) 424-1076

Army Air Forces

3rd Emer. Rescue Sq. (Fall-Grand Island, NE) Warren

Wegner, 2500 S. Hwy. 14, Box 202, Central City, NE

68826 (308) 946-2085 4th Tactical Air Communication Sq. (WWII) (June-CA/

FL) Walter Lewandowski. 10623 Aylesford Dr., St. Louis.

MO 63136(314)867-7698 27th Air Dpt. Grp. (New Guinea) (June-Dayton, OH)

Benny Buford, 1021 White Haven Ln., Memphis, TN

38116(901)332-4526 57th Bomb Wing Assn. (WWII) (Sept-Orlando, FL)

Robert Evans, 1950 Cunningham Dr., Speedway, IN

46224 (317) 247-7507 73rd Bomb Wing (WWII) (May-Orlando, FL) 73rd Bomb

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Diego) Roger Airgood, 1635 N. 12th St., Lafayette, IN

47904(317)742-0357 96th Dpt. Repair Sq., 16th ADG (June) Edwin Grasshopf,

521 Mt. Vernon St., Oshkosh, Wl 54901 159th Liaison Sq. Commandoes (Mar-Savannah, GA)

Gerald Brock, Rt. 1, Box 209, Williams, IN 47470 (812)

388-7131

305th Airdrome Sq. (May-Dalhart, TX) C.G. Etheredge,

Rt. 3, Box 98, Quinlan, TX 75474 (214) 883-2466 307th Bomb Grp., (HV) (May-Nashville, TN) Ken Meyers,

314 Grandview Dr., Nashville, TN 37130 (615) 890-3194 314th Troop Carrier Sq. (May-Colorado Springs, CO)

Bernie Carmin, Box 44, Marion. IN 46952 (317) 664-

7851

382/421st Bomb Grps. (Muroc, Pocotello) (May-

Asheville, NC)T.F. Smith, 119 Maple St.. Masontown, PA

15461 (412) 583-7851 434th Sq., 12th Bomb Grp. (WWII) (June-Colorado

Springs, CO) Donald Hiatt. 2628 Hartsel Ct., Loveland,

CO 80538

438th Trp. Carrier Grp. (WWII) (Sept-Monterey, CA) Ronald Worrell, 419 S. 4th St., DeKalb, IL 60115 (815) 756-6582

442nd Trp. Carrier Grp. ((WWII)) (May-St. Louis) R.A Mullins, Rt. 4, Box 159, Princeton, IN 47670 (812) 385- 5157

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691st AAF Band (Mar-Oct, 1946) (Aug-Hershey. PA)

Ralph Watts, 67 Brookside Ave., Hershey, PA 17033

(717)533-7601 1662nd Ord. Mam. AVN Pit. (June-Kansas City, MO)

Archie Cook. 707 E. South St., Marshalltown, IA 50158

(515) 753-7848 Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society ((WWII, Korea,

Vietnam)) (May-Denver) David O'Boyle, 715 Locust St.,

Denver, CO 80220 (303) 399-6993 AIRWAC's Base (Carlsbad-1944-45) (May-Carlsbad,

NM) Opal Keesee, Rt. 1, Cookville, TX 75558 (214) 572-

8052

CASU 32 (June-Torrance, CA) Elmer Marose. 5906 N.

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Glenhaven, Abilene, TX 79603 (915) 672-4585 27th Marines, I Co. (Vietnam-1968) (Aug-Lancaster,

OH) MerleThomas, 1733 Summer, Grinnell, IA 50112

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Parting shots

'Because he showed the most interest in my money, I'm leaving it to my nephew Morris. "

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—Kris Lee

Will Power

Strength: the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands . . . and eat just one of the pieces.

—Mary Eyged

Humble Pie

Veteran employee to newcomer: "You'll do fine as soon as you learn to think of crow as one of the basic food groups."

—Ivern Ball

One-stop Service

The Internal Revenue Service can be very accommodating. An IRS agent called one man in for an audit, and when it was over, the agent told him, 'Til call a cab for you."

"No, thanks," the man said. "I have my car parked downstairs."

"What car?" the agent replied.

— Addie Warner

Marathon Man

It isn't running into debt that's so rough — it's running into your creditors.

—Thomas LaMance

Second Opinion

Looking down at the sick man, the doctor decided to tell him the truth. "I feel I should tell you that you are very sick," the doctor said. "I'm sure that you would want to know the facts. Now, is there anyone you would like to see?"

Bending down, the doctor heard him feebly answer, "Yes." "Who is it?"

In a slightly stronger voice, the suf- ferer answered, "Another doctor."

— T.R. Lawrence

Heavy Metal

Remember, nothing you put in that chocolate-cream pie is as fattening as a dinner fork.

— Lloyd By ers

Last Resort

The neighbors were discussing how they had met their husbands. Said one with a deep sigh, "I met Howard at a travel agency. I was looking for a vaca- tion — and he was the last resort."

—Marjorie Brooks

Election Bored

Politicians often leave us with our mouths wide open. One day, we're star- tled. The next day, we're yawning.

—Gil Stern

Working Mother

In a small mountain town, a man appeared in the doctor's office early one morning. He asked the nurse whether she and the doctor would come right out to his ranch, where his wife was having a baby.

The nurse called the doctor at his home and briefed him. "Ask the man how long his wife has been in labor," the doctor said.

The nurse did, and got a quick answer: "Tell Doc she's worked all her life."

— Tom Taylor

Aging Gracefully

Diplomat: a husband who makes sure that his wife's birthday cake is short one candle.

—Homer Phillips

Helpful Advice

Sign in waiting room of weight- control clinic: "Lord, help those who keep helping themselves."

—Joni Cagle

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